Edit text line in an action in 2024

[Brian Mackey 2024]

I have an action that puts a frame around a picture and a signature, the date is 2023 on the signature I want to change it to 2024 none of the community resolutions work as non of them are from current versions it seems by now 24 years later there would be an edit button!!  Anyway how can I change that text to 2024

[Ciccillotto]

If you make the action available, surely someone will modify it for the purpose, or I'll edit it for you.

[Brian Mackey 2024]

Hi and thank you, I'll try and figure out how to copy and upload the action 🙂

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Actions are fairly simple so what is actually giving you problems? 

Have you tried double-clicking the step of the Action in the Actions Panel? 

Could you please provide the atn-file (as @Ciccillotto requested) or at least post screenshots with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Actions, Layers, Options Bar, …) visible and the action in question fully expanded? 

[Brian Mackey 2024]

yes I tried double-clicking on the full action and the text step and I get an error saying this can not be run

 

at this time continue or stop

[Brian Mackey 2024]

 

[Lumigraphics]

Ok so delete that step and re-record it.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/actions-actions-panel.html

[Brian Mackey 2024]

where can I find the actions I created? I went to oath and in my presets and actions its an empty folder, I did a search for .atn files with agent ransack search and did not find my white frame action

[Brian Mackey 2024]

it did not find any .atn files for that matter 🙂

[jane-e]

where can I find the actions I created?

By @Brian Mackey 2024

Did you save your action sets (folders) from the Action panel menu? (You didn't say.) If you don't save the Set everytime you make or edit an action, then you risk losing all of the actions in the Set. See this help page for details about saving the Set:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/migrate-actions.html

Jane

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

Some action steps can be double-clicked or use the action panel menu "record again" command for the same.

Others you just have to record a totally new step and delete the old step.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Some action steps can be double-clicked or use the action panel menu "record again" command for the same.

And creating a Type Layer appears to fall in this Group. 

Edit: Edit and re-record actions

[Brian Mackey 2024]

sorry I am new ~~ and I don't have a "record again" that I can find

[Brian Mackey 2024]

Mine won't let me edit anything like the old ccs6 Its not a huge pain to recreate but LOL its 2024 and I should be able to edit it, (cursing removed) I cannot even find them On my PC~ only some preinstalled .atn files show up

[Ciccillotto]

sorry, you said you can't find the action, instead I see the various steps from the screenshots posted, so the action is that, now save the action on desktop and share it with us, simpler than that???

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

Mine won't let me edit anything like the old ccs6 Its not a huge pain to recreate but LOL its 2024 and I should be able to edit it, hell I cannot even find them On my PC~ only some preinstalled .atn files show up

By @Brian Mackey 2024

Nothing has changed in how items can be edited in actions.

You must use the action panel menu to save an action set folder to .atn file:

Loaded .atn files or newly created and unsaved action sets are temporarily stored in the Actions Palette presets file (Actions Palette.psp). This file should be considered temporary and may be subject to corruption or loss, so making an explicit save to .atn file for each action set is strongly advised.

[Maverick37224310uhxh]

To change the date to 2024, open the Photoshop action, locate the step where the text is added, and edit the text layer to update the date. If needed, create a new text layer with the updated date and replace the old one.