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wckdtall
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October 23, 2024
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Illustrator 2024 action location? - MACOS

  • October 23, 2024
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Autoupgraded to 2025, and it uninstalled 2024. I tried importing settings, my user actions aren't available in 2025 there. I restored 2024 from time machine, and they are in there, but they're just "in the program", tried searching via terminal and didn't find anything.

 

I can just save them out, but out of principle, I need to know where they are.

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Correct answer wckdtall

I created a simple action.

This is the action saved in the preferences.

 

This is the file I saved by using "Save Actions..." from the action palette.

 

Both are the same.


Thanks @silk-m!

Where I went wrong, was looking for actions by name, I forgot they are hexadecimal, and weren't searchable.


To my future self, when I have the same problem next year, this is the path on mac:
/Users/<USER_NAME>/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator 28 Settings/en_US/Adobe Illustrator Prefs

File: "Adobe Illustrator Prefs"
Extension: None

2 replies

silk-m
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 25, 2024

Illustrator does not provide a place to save user presets.
Therefore, if you have not carried over preferences from 2024, you will need to save your actions in 2024 (you will need to provide your own location) and load them in 2025.

--Susumu Iwasaki
wckdtall
wckdtallAuthor
Inspiring
October 25, 2024
Interesting. Most other presets like keys or workspaces get recorded, there
has to be a temp file somewhere?
Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 25, 2024

The Preferences file in your Preferences folder.

Doug A Roberts
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 23, 2024

They are in:

Adobe Illustrator 2024\Presets\en_GB\Actions

 

I believe you need to 'Show Package Contents' to access the app's files on Mac OS.

wckdtall
wckdtallAuthor
Inspiring
October 25, 2024

Thanks! I tried that, and there's no presets folder in there.

 

Neither Library has actions, really scratching my head to figure out where they are. Tried a "find aia" search in terminal, wondering if these "temp" actions are stored in a different format?

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 25, 2024

If you didn't save them, they should be inside your preferences file