Update Near disaster

Just FYI..... My Photoshop installation is routinely updated without problem.  But my attempt to go from 24.4 to 24.5 yesterday resulted in near disaster.  Instead of an update, I got a fresh clean install, wiping out everything I had customized.  My preferences, my workspace, my custom styles and most importantly, my collection of actions.  Some of those actions were a decade or more old and I have long since forgotten how I had built them.  Fortunately, I was able to recover the actions from a recent backup of my computer drive.  Recreating the other customizations was not difficult but was time consuming. Not a fun evening.
George Butch
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