Actions are stored where?

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January 1, 2011
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I had to replace my motherboard on my Windows 7 machine, which resulted in having to reinstall Windows 7 and all my software. I have a copy of all my data before I reinstalled Windows 7.

So now that I have Photoshop CS5 reinstalled, can't I just copy my Actions from my data backup and put them into Photoshop? Where are the Actions stored?

Bob

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Semaphoric

Community Expert

The default location (for CS4 on VIsta) is in AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Photoshop CS4\Presets\Actions\ in your User directory. I would suppose CS5 in Win7 is similar. If you saved that, you should be good to go.

Note that this directory is Hidden, so your system need to be set to "Show hidden fiules and folders".

Paul Riggott

Inspiring

You will find that that folder is empty unless you yourself have saved the actionsets from the action palette.

Paul Riggott

Inspiring

You are correct Paul..that folder is empty.

I searched for .atn files in my backup and found several. Can I copy them into my current install of Photoshop?

You can load the atn files directly by several methods: IE drag and drop them into Photoshop or from the Action Palette fly out menu select "Load Actions"

Paul Riggott

Inspiring

The current actions are in a file "Actions Palette.psp" in the preferences folder

Users/[Username]/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS5/Adobe Photoshop CS5 Settings

Other than this you will have to find the original .atn files

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