Illustrator CC Actions

[spderry]

In all previous versions of Illustrator I had saved Actions. One Action that saved as a PDF into a certain folder. In Illustrator CC the location in the Script isn't remembered in the action. It is there when I create the Script and it works fine. But as soon as I quit and open Illustrator again, the scripts don't work. When I run them, it asks me for the save location.

[hjespersen]

This problem is now fixed for me in Illustrator 18 (Illustrator CC 2014)!

[amxyz]

Hi everyone,

The Illustrator team is aware of the issue and is working on providing the fix in a future release.

One suggested workaround is to save the actions before quitting the application.

Thanks for your patience! I'll provide updates here as soon as they are available.

Thanks,

Amy

[Kris Hunt]

Thank you.

[Larry G. Schneider]

My question is whether or not they are also going to fix the ages-old dropping of scripts called by Actions as well.

[b3achouse]

Yeah this is soooooo boring. I just moved to a mac at work and at least I don't have to load the script menu every time (like I do on a windows machine). It's pretty annoying that shortcuts for actions are locked to Function keys too.

[howhardcanthisbe]

Hi Amy

Please can you explain how the workaround works? I don't see how one could not "save the actions" .  I simply want to record "offset line, change line weight, change to dash line" which I do a hundred times a day. In CC it is changing from whatever dash I enter to  2pt dash 0pt space (so of course line appears solid). I'm really a bit fed up with CC the cost is very high for me compared to the benefits. I wish I'd stuck at CS3.

[Merhan]

I installed the new 2014 version of illustrator CC, but I still face the exact same problem of yours !

[tschmidtinart]

With the new CC2014 update the actions are fixed...but now I have to resave all my keyboard shortcuts and workspace...ugh I have 8 people working under me and I WILL NOT upgrade them to CC, they will be on CS6 forever. Why  pay $53 a month for all these issues.

[Kris Hunt]

Just move your settings over manually.

[rexprints]

Actually, the confusion may come from the "Save Action" not listing as an option until and unless you select an action or set (folder) of actions. Then you can save you actions to wherever you want, although the default is in Applications>Adobe Illustrator CC xxxx>Presets>Actions. Unfortunately that isn't a Cloud thing; you'll have to park it on every machine, manually.

[sandidawni]

This thread was started in 2013. It's now June 30, 2016 - and I'm having the same problem. Was it ever fixed? Is there a way to save actions and have them work? Frustrating.

[Monika Gause]

sandidawni schrieb:

This thread was started in 2013. It's now June 30, 2016 - and I'm having the same problem. Was it ever fixed? Is there a way to save actions and have them work? Frustrating.

Please answer in your own thread. The problem discussed here most likely is a completely different issue.