Are my Actions Gone? Are the files stored somewhere?

Hello, thanks ahead of time for your help. I was having Photoshop issues, contacted Adobe Support, they told me that they had to Reset my Preferences, which they walked me thru doing. The GOOD NEWS is that it fixed the problem. The BAD NEWS is that the Adobe Support person apparently didn't think it worthwhile to tell me that with whatever steps he took that it was going to wipe out all the Actions from my Actions Palette. Some Actions that I had ATN files for I can find and reload, but so far, it seems as though any individual Actions that I wrote/recorded are gone now? Or when you write/record an action is it perhaps stored somewhere in some Adobe folder area?

That would be hours worth of time lost if all those Actions are gone now, plus some of them I wrote/recorded over the years while finding interesting "How To" tutorials online. So I'm really hoping they are perhaps somewhere on my computer. 

IF they are toast, for my future reference is there a way to SAVE an Action when you write one? Also if they are toast. then I'd say a shout out to Adobe Support Tech's are in order to perhaps mention to customers when the Support Actions are going to delete all of someone's Actions. It sure would have been nice to have been able to perhaps Save them somehow before the Adobe Tech did his thing.