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How to save all actions at once with a script?

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
October 18, 2017
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I have lots of actions organized in lots of folders and constantly work with them. Now I am saving all edited actions each day by saving their folders. But this is very inconvenient because sometimes I do not remember folders where I edit actions.

Hence, the question is - Is there a way to save all my actions at once with a script?
Would be very grateful for any answer!

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Tom Winkelmann

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Why not save "Actions Palette.psp"?

Photoshop Actions Palette File Backup and Restore - YouTube

JJMack

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That is not the same as saving Action. One should save Action they work on just like they save images they work on.

JJMack

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The Script you write would do exactly that. Save each loaded action set into your folder. Each set would be saved into an "Name".atn file in that folder your script would do all save required.

JJMack

Cyril500Author

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You mean I should such an action?

JJMack

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Your Photoshop JavaScript would do the in its code you would never see it being done in Photoshop User Interface. The script would automate the entire process. The Automation can not be done with a Photoshop for actions can not use logic to retrieve the loaded action set names and then save the actions sets.

JJMack

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If you can program a Photoshop you should be able to retrieve all the loaded action set in the Action Palette and save them into a folder. If you do a search you sould be able to find Scripts the retrieve action set names and action names. Download xtools it has an actionlister java script. You can build on code found in it.

JJMack

Cyril500Author

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Thank you for answering but I do not think I understand - how to save all actions from Action Palette into a folder without saving each action set...

Maybe I was not quite clear - I do not need a list of actions - I create actions myself and I need to backup them daily.

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