All my custom actions are gone - only default actions show

Question

This morning when I started Photoshop all my actions were suddenly gone. In the action panel there is only a group called “default actions”. I used it yesterday and my actions were all there. When checking in Creative Cloud Desktop it says I updated to Photoshop v27.5 21 days ago - so that cannot be the explanation.

I have searched my desktop and there are no atn-files later than the backup I created a week ago (and I have made important changes since then).

Can anyone explain what may have happened and if there is anything I can do in order to get my Actions back (as they were per yesterday, not the older backup)?

Yesterday I installed Premiere and worked a bit with it (it crashed), but cannot see how that would affect my Photoshop actions.

Stephen Marsh · Accepted Answer

Loaded .atn files or newly created and unsaved action sets are temporarily stored in the Actions Palette presets file(Actions Palette.psp).This file should be considered temporary and may be subject to corruption or loss, which is why making an explicit save to .atn file for each individual action set is strongly advised.https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/01/photoshop-custom-action-file-backup.html?m=1

TomPol · Answer

The same problem here (27.7). During Photoshop start it showed some info about unexpected end of file (Actions), and all my actions gone. But nothing crashed yesterday, everything was fine.

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