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PhotoRoy1
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May 22, 2021
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Batch commands have disappered

  • May 22, 2021
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Batch commands I  have created have disappeared. I'm on Windows 10. Where are they located and do they have .atn as an extension? I am using the lastes version of Windows 10.

I haven't rest my preferance so they should be there. They must have a different extension as I search the C drive for them as atn extensions and found just the default settings. I have an old backup drive but it only has the default atn files

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Correct answer Stephen Marsh
No actions I have created appear in the action panel. I recreated one this morning. I then search for it by *atn. It doesn't appear. I also notice that none of the atn files that windows search found are the ones in the adobe action panel . It is clear to me that the default actions and the actions created in Photoshop have a different extension. On the Internet I found that some XML files can be converted to atn files so maybe Adobe stores them as XLM files. If I hit the load option in the action panel there is nothing to load. The file this opens is under User/app/adobe/......  I try to search for XML but I think I will end up recreating the actions. Thanks for your help

@PhotoRoy1 – Again, all is explained here:

 

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

 

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PhotoRoy1
PhotoRoy1Author
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May 22, 2021

I'm using Photoshop CS6.

and the latest version of Windows 10

Stephen Marsh
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May 23, 2021

The batch command plays actions. Do you have the required actions in your actions panel? Do you have saved copies of action sets on your drive with a .atn extension?

 

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

 

 

 

JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 31, 2021

I found copies of the atn files I created on my backup C drive. I copied them to the Prest action file and I copied them to my Data Backup drive so I can paste them in if they ever disappear again. Thanks


It sounds like something is resetting your Actions Palette Preferences file back Addobe's default.  You need the load you Action Sets .atn file again so the will loaded into the Actions Palette and written into your  user id Photoshop Preferences folder in "Actions Palette.psp"

JJMack