Actions panel stopped working

Found this problem years later & as a professional had hundreds of actions that hadn't been saved (Had recently been updated in the last week - Don't ask). 

If you have actions that you don't want to lose the progress of. You can run the action you want in Button Mode, after running, change out of button mode, you can then save the action you've just run using the dialog menu.

Because after running in Button mode, it automatically selects the name of the action you just ran. So even though you can't see it, it's selected & thus you can save it. I managed to save all my actions by systematically doing this one by one. I tried EVERYTHING before this, including tens of scripts & forums, this is all that worked.

I see that this was answered

I have the same problem and wondered if its because I have a LOT of actions that I've downloaded

So, although it seems that resetting the actions is the answer, as someone mentioned above, this isn't advisable if we have actions that aren't saved

The problem of course is how to save those actions....?? Nothing shows up when in edit mode which is where you need to be to save the actions. In button mode, the option is greyed out

So it seems now that I'm faced with losing my unsaved actions just to get edit mode back, or stay as I am with my actions and be unable to save, edit, add to or even create new actions

Does anyone have a solution to this?? Is there a way to retrieve the action data??

Thanks