Every Yearly update resets my photoshop entirely.

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
October 26, 2022
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As title states. All my actions and workflow set up gets reset to default EVERYTIME. How do I avoid this and WHY is this something that is done by default?! Seriously? I have never selected anything that would reset user preferances and why would that even be an option?? Who is in charge of UX and why do they still have a job? Losing my actions is like Lightroom update deleting presets cmon.

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Correct answer Myra Ferguson

In your Creative Cloud Desktop app, either when you manually click to update an app or by clicking Manage auto-updates in the upper right, select Import previous settings and preferences. You can also decide whether or not you'd like to select Remove older versions.

D Fosse

Community Expert

Save out your actions from the Actions panel. Keep them in a safe place, then you can always reload them.

If you don't save them out, actions, brushes etc are stored in the preference folder in your user account. Every new version starts with a clean user account. You can migrate preferences when you update, but keep in mind that preferences are prone to corruption because they are rewritten on every application exit. An irregular shutdown can corrupt them, and errors accumulate. A corrupt prefs file can cause strange and erratic behavior.

So it might actually be a good idea to start with clean sheets.

J

JamesMonetAuthor

Participating Frequently

Absolutely great advice! This is really unintuitive though. When you create an action, brush, whatever. IT IS SAVED LOL. Why should ANY user ever have to go a step further than saving it on what they use?

Earth Oliver

Legend

James, yes, this is what we've been asking Adobe for decades. And now that we have preset syncing in the cloud, that our tools aren't being auto-saved is even more of a frustrating mystery.

Myra Ferguson

Correct answer

Community Expert

In your Creative Cloud Desktop app, either when you manually click to update an app or by clicking Manage auto-updates in the upper right, select Import previous settings and preferences. You can also decide whether or not you'd like to select Remove older versions.

J

JamesMonetAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thank you. Still curious as to why thats not just on by default. Who in the head office decided that its better for the user to have their photoshop that they spent time customizing automatically reset to default? Like is having a bad UX better for business or what guys?

Earth Oliver

Legend

People who don't regularly use Ps are the ones making those decisions. Welcome to the new era.

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