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I have lost my new scripts!!! Where are they????!!!!

Forum|Forum|30 days ago
July 6, 2026
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I have downgrade to 20.4.2. from 20.5 and I have lost all my new scripts!!! (Mac OS 15.7.4)

Where are they???? Any help?

They are not at Users/User/Library/Preferences/Adobe Indesign/

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nicoshAuthor

Inspiring

Hi @Abhishek Rao, trying to remember…

I think I upgrade to 20.5, after some issues I downgrade to 20.4.2 ¿with previous uninstalling 20.5? I don’t think so.

I did it all with creative cloud via applications > previous versions.

I’m still facing the issue, I began to rewrite all the missing scripts.

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

If a person were to uninstall, and answer no to keeping settings, and later reinstall, … then the v20 folder with its many subfolders including scripts would likely be wiped out.

Mike Witherell

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nicoshAuthor

Inspiring

Hi and thanks @Mike Witherell

Nobody or nothing intelligent ask my for keeping settings...

you too @leo.r, thank you

I was talking about a product engineer, not a community manager

The point is that I find very curious or strange that when i downgrade the app (20.4.2), it ‘remembers’ which scripts you had installed the last time you had that version – in my case, months ago – and even when you open the app, it shows you old documents previews from that date.

However, when I upgraded the app to the latest version I’d had installed (20.5) just a few minutes earlier, it didn’t remember a thing… not the scripts, not the documents, nothing.

My own fault for not making a previous backup.

rob day

Community Expert

Hi @nicosh , Not sure if this help, but there are 3 root folders the Scripts panel get display. If you Control click the panel folder icon you get the option to Reveal in Finder

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nicoshAuthor

Inspiring

@rob day thank you, but all my scripts was in the User folder. So I think that the path to the script folder is:

[username]/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version/[language]/Scripts/Scripts Panel

I think I can’t restore them… if the people of Adobe are so silent it means that there are no solution or…

¿people from Adobe doesn’t read our questions?

leo.r

Community Expert

people from Adobe doesn’t read our questions?

A person from Adobe replied just yesterday…

In general, if you can’t find the scripts on your machine one way or another (by running a thorough search, for example) then they are not there. Adobe installers/uninstallers wouldn’t upload/re-download your scripts.

Admittedly, I’m not exactly sure how custom scripts should normally be handled under the multiple downgrade-reupdate scenario you described, so I don’t know if what you experienced is a bug or an expected behavior.

In any case, as you already mentioned, you’ve learned what many of us also learned the hard way: anything of any value for you must be backed up at all times one way or another. And it must be an automatic backup that’s running at all times, not reliance on remembering to copy some files sometime somewhere. You already mentioned Time Machine. Another option is to keep your files on a cloud service such as Google Drive or Dropbox, which have their own backup system (although in the case of InDesign scripts this would require some additional setup in your file management).

masonreed

Participating Frequently

Check the 20.5 user folders—your scripts may still be there. Downgrading often uses a different preferences location rather than deleting files. If you saved them in the app's Scripts folder, restoring from a backup may be necessary.

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nicoshAuthor

Inspiring

Hi @masonreed

I have:

[username]/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 20.0/[language]/Scripts/Scripts Panel

I have not a 20.5 folder, is there any other place to search?

Thank you

TᴀW

Legend

Hi @nicosh,

As you mentioned to me privately that some of the scripts were bought from Id-Extras.com, at least those can always be downloaded again here: https://www.id-extras.com/shopping-cart/my-account/

id-extras.com | InDesign tools & scripts for typesetters, form designers, and translators

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nicoshAuthor

Inspiring

At least the scripts that I bought… but mines I think it’s impossible, and it takes me a lot of time and effort because I'm not a programmer.

Done

Thank you

leo.r

Community Expert

You mentioned the Preferences folder. Did you check the Scripts inside the InDesign folder?

Also, you should be able to retrieve your scripts (as well as anything else) from your backup.

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @nicosh,

Sorry to hear this happened after the downgrade. Could you please check the version-specific Scripts Panel folders for both InDesign 20.5 and 20.4.2, as each version maintains its own scripts folder? Adobe documents the script locations here: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/desktop/automation-and-scripting/document-automation/automate-workflows-with-scripts.html

Also, do you see any scripts in Window > Utilities > Scripts? If so, Control-click any script and choose Reveal in Finder. This will open the exact Scripts Panel folder that InDesign is currently using. If you find your custom scripts in the 20.5 Scripts Panel folder, copy them into the corresponding 20.4.2 Scripts Panel folder and restart InDesign.

Let me know what you find.

Abhishek

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nicoshAuthor

Inspiring

This is the sequence:

Upgrade to 20.5 (last week)

Downgrade 20.4.2 (today): Because I have some issues

Upgrade 20.5.4 (today) (actually here)

I have my own scripts but old ones. For example I have worked with a script this last week and I can not find it. Lost.

When I downgrade it’s like the downgrade was to the last time I upgrade (now I have scripts from October 25 th 2025, may be the last time I upgrade).

I have [username]/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 20.0/[language]/Scripts/Scripts Panel

So no version folder like version 20.5 or version 20.4.2.

I have lost a lot of work

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