Adding Photoshop Actions WHERE please ?

[BTDA]

Good evening, I want to add action files (scripts) to Photoshop. I would like to copy them to the correct folder from the finder. Can someone remind me of the location of the folder and the tree to find it please? Thanks in advance, B.

Can you remind me the way and which folder in finder, to copy paste photoshop actions please?

Thanks

[JJMack]

Action are in Action sets and stored in (ActionSetName).atn files and you load Action set into you Actions Palette usiny the Palette's fly-out menu item load actions... .

 

Photoshop script program are text files that extensions  for the script type.  JavaScripts will have an extension  *.jsx the you would  copy these into your Photoshop version oilder Presets\|Scripts

[Stephen Marsh]

Actions and scripts are two different things.

Action set .atn files should be loaded into Photoshop using the Action panel menu at the upper right. Depending on file type associations, it could just be as simple as double-clicking on the .atn file to load it into Photoshop.

If you don't have separate .atn files and you only have a "temporary" unsaved Actions Palette.psp file:

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/01/photoshop-custom-action-file-backup.html

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/script-to-help-back-up-photoshop-settings/m-p/11517871

[Jeff Arola]

You can put actions in

/Users/UserName/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop 2021/Presets/Actions

they show up at the bottom of the Window>Actions panel flyout menu

Scripts like what you see in photoshop under File>Scripts can go in

/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2021/Presets/Scripts

[Stephen Marsh]

Further to Jeff's reply:

Where should one save these .atn files?

Mac:

/Applications/Adobe Photoshop ???/Presets/Actions

Win:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop ???\Presets\Actions
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop ???\Presets\Actions

If an .atn file is saved to the default application/program presets folder as above, the action will be listed and available in the action palette menu. This allows an action to be easily restored if it is removed without having to manually find and load the original .atn file. If there are many actions, this menu may become unwieldy due the length of the added action sets.

Note: by storing saved action .atn files in this “expected” default application/program location they will not be available to the built in preset migration export tool (edit menu, presets, export/import presets).

For the built-in export/import presets feature to list saved actions for migration, they should be saved to a non-default location – the user level preset folder for actions:

Mac:

Users/username/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop ???/Presets/Actions

Win:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop ???\Presets\Actions

[Trevor.Dennis]

I think you should be sorted by now, but for future reference this link is well worth bookmarking

https://helpx.adobe.com/nz/photoshop/kb/preference-file-names-locations-photoshop.html

You mentioned being a Mac user and I don't know how the Finder works, but for those Windows users who don't know, you need to make Hidden files viewable in File Explorer to access the App Data files.