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effectively view and scroll through all installed photoshop actions

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September 30, 2019
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I have dozens and dozens of Photoshop Actions on my hard drive, which I used to be able to see at a glance in multiple columns so as to actually install/activate the ones I want to use/be at hand in Photoshop. In the latest version all I get is an enormous ONE COLUMN list which scrolls very, very slowly. Has anybody solved this issue and/or know how to even describe in proper Adobese what settings are involved? Thanks.

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Jeff Arola

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Thanks for the screenshot.

I believe that was a change adobe made starting in photoshop cc 2018 as described here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/Photoshop/Photoshop-flyout-menus-in-upgrade/td-p/9764076

You could post over here and see what adobe says:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family

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Michael_tBAuthor

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Merely having learned more about the real Adobe (photoshop?) lingo [ flyout ] already makes your reply worth while! Thanks.

Jeff Arola

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I meant can you provide a screenshot of what your seeing now.

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Michael_tBAuthor

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Oops, sorry, I didn't get that. Here it is.

Stephen Marsh

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I don’t believe that my earlier post was “beside the point” as what you show in this screenshot is exactly what I wrote in my blog-post!

If an .atn file is saved to the default application/program presets folder as above, the action will be listed and available in the action palette menu. This allows an action to be easily restored if it is removed without having to manually find and load the original .atn file. If there are many actions, this menu may become unwieldy due the length of the added action sets.

I use a Mac for Photoshop, so I can't comment on whether any version of MS Windows OS actually can show the action panel menu in multiple columns. On the Mac OS it is a single column list just as you show on MS Windows OS.

Jeff Arola

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Can you provide a screenshot?

Also what operating system are you using?

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Michael_tBAuthor

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No, unfortunately I cannot provide a screenshot, as the setting has vanished by itself somewhere in the recent past. I'm sure though that it worked well under the previous "version" of Windows 10. Hard to believe that nobody else noticed this, since it clearly makes it far more difficult to find not-so-often-used-but-therefore-indispensible Actions.

Stephen Marsh

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/* I have dozens and dozens of Photoshop Actions on my hard drive, which I used to be able to see at a glance in multiple columns so as to actually install/activate the ones I want to use/be at hand in Photoshop. */

This sounds like an operating system feature?

/* In the latest version all I get is an enormous ONE COLUMN list which scrolls very, very slowly. Has anybody solved this issue and/or know how to even describe in proper Adobese what settings are involved? Thanks. */

Is this an OS or Photoshop feature that you mention?

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Michael_tBAuthor

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First of thanks for your time. I'm sorry if I have been unclear, but these are the steps I took/take which previously resulted in ... well.. my whole screen full of action names. Mind you I am talking about actions that are NOT currently shown in the Actions Panel as in the picture you supplied.

Chuck Uebele

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Have you tried dragging out the side of the action panel to get the multiple columns?

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