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Illustrator 2024 action location? - MACOS

Enthusiast ,
Oct 23, 2024 Oct 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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Enthusiast , Oct 29, 2024 Oct 29, 2024

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

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Oct 23, 2024 Oct 23, 2024

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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.

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Oct 25, 2024 Oct 25, 2024

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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?

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Oct 25, 2024 Oct 25, 2024

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

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Oct 25, 2024 Oct 25, 2024

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Agree they should be, but they are not.

I tested with 2025 by creating a new action group and closing the program.
It is nowhere to be found.

They are not in: /Users/<>/Library/Application
Support/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator 29
/Users/<>/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator 29 Settings
/Applications/Adobe Illustrator 2025/Presets.localized/en_US/Actions
No Illustrator Folders here: /Library/Preferences /Library/Application
Support/Adobe /Applications/Adobe Illustrator 2025/Adobe
Illustrator.app/Contents

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Oct 25, 2024 Oct 25, 2024

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It's inside the Adobe Illustrator Prefs file. Open it in a text editor and it's in there.

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Oct 28, 2024 Oct 28, 2024

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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?


By @wckdtall

 

They are not in the Library folder. On Windows the location is:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 2024\Presets\en_GB\Actions

 

On Mac OS I'm going off memory, but you need to right-click on the Illustrator app package in the applications folder and click 'Show Package Contents'. From there it should be a similar path.

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Oct 28, 2024 Oct 28, 2024

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You do not have to show the contents in current versions of Illustrator. The locations are here: https://www.vektorgarten.de/illustrator-settings.html#21

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Oct 25, 2024 Oct 25, 2024

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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.

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Susumu Iwasaki

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Oct 25, 2024 Oct 25, 2024

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Interesting. Most other presets like keys or workspaces get recorded, there
has to be a temp file somewhere?

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Oct 25, 2024 Oct 25, 2024

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The Preferences file in your Preferences folder.

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Oct 25, 2024 Oct 25, 2024

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I created a simple action.

Screenshot 2024-10-26 at 03.52.35.png

This is the action saved in the preferences.

Screenshot 2024-10-26 at 04.14.31.png

 

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

Screenshot 2024-10-26 at 04.15.09.png

 

Both are the same.

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Oct 29, 2024 Oct 29, 2024

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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

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