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December 17, 2018
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where are my actions

  • December 17, 2018
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MY PC jst recovered from a hiccup (i think one of my drives is on the way out). On booting lightroom and photoshop seem to have had their prefs reset.

I spent over an hour today writing an action, and several more over the last couple of days.  can someone please tell me where they will be on a windows 10 box please.

My Actions Palette.psp with todays date is 249kb. That is not it.

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    gethoAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 17, 2018

    I ran r-studio on my C:drive and I was able to recover loads of the actions palette.psp from today and previously.  The one from today is borked, and gets deletd by photoshop.  It's frustrating that my action from today is in there, but not accessible.  If I knew how I'd try to parse it and extract the steps.  Anyone with knowledge of how to do this, I'm all ears.

    But at least I've got the ones from a few days ago.  NOW, I used to religiously save my actions after each session because of the pain of losing some years ago. But just a few days ago I was thinking that I' blindly doing this, but its 2018, surely adobe backs these up now or sends them to the cloud.  Adobe has never had any finesse when it comes to relieving the burden of the user for housekeeping tasks. So what an arse I am for thinking after 20 years they'd suddenly get good.

    Stephen Marsh
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 17, 2018

    “If I knew how I'd try to parse it and extract the steps.  Anyone with knowledge of how to do this, I'm all ears.”

    Try here:

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/ps-scripts/files/xtools/v2.3/

    or

    Modifying Adobe Photoshop Action (*.atn) Files

    Stephen Marsh
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 17, 2018

    I agree, they are likely gone for good, however the following may help (if not now, perhaps in the future):

    Prepression: Photoshop – Custom Action File Backup & Migration

    c.pfaffenbichler
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 17, 2018

    But in case you never saved the Actions as atn-file/s they are likely gone for good.

    December 17, 2018

    Hi

    Check this location

    C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019\Presets

    You may need to enable this option in file explorer