Photoshop Actions Save Location

[Billi Plancarte]

Irecently got a new Windows 11 computer and installed photoshop from scratch. Unfortunately I didn't export my actions and now I am trying to find them. I have the old "C" drive but when I go to Users\MYUSER\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2023\Presets\Actions it is empty. Same for folder for Photoshop 2022 and Photoshop 2021 that were on that drive. I saw another post that mentioned the Actions Palette.psp file in Adobe Photoshop 2023 Settings but copying and pasting that to the new C drive in the same folder did nothing. Any ideas?

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, which is why making an explicit save to .atn file for each individual action set is strongly advised.

Actions can be downloaded or created by users, making them a powerful tool for photographers, designers, and digital artists. They can also be customized or combined with other actions to create complex effects or achieve specific goals. By using actions, users can streamline their workflow and focus more on the creative aspects of their work, rather than spending time on tedious editing tasks.

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Ideally, I would like to use the Batch features and set the destination folder from that dialogue box at the initial stage of setting up the process. If I can't do that, I would like to be able to be prompted to where the newly optimized images should land.

With this toggle switch on you can tell each file the location to save to as it processes through the batch. If this doesn't work for you since you have numerous ones to export, the droplet suggestion also works well.

As far as I know, you can't edit actions. You just delete and remake them. Shouldn't be too hard for a simple Save for Web optimization action. When you create the action, keep recording through a full save for web with your custom options, then stop and save the recording. As for save location, when you set up the Batch(File>Automate>Batch), choose your custom action, and set Destination to folder, and don't let it override the save commands.

What I want to do is open each of those PDFs in Photoshop, and then Save For Web as a jpeg with a series of options (i.e. Blur: 0.192, Quality: 35, etc).I've already created an action that opens a file as PDF generic with a specific resolution and height, and then an export action of Using: Save For Web, Operation: Save, etc.

Unfortunately, to complete the creation of the Action, I needed to save the file, and the "Export" action now has a path ("In: T:..."). What I want to do is run that Action I created; when doing so it processes all the PDFs and creates JPEGs just fine, but all the files are saving to the same folder that I saved the file to when I created the action. This is a problem as there are non-unique filenames here and there, and what I need is for each of these files to save to the subfolders in which their PDF counterpart lives.

When it comes to managing files, batch actions are a blunt instrument. It is, at its core, single source and single destination designed to facilitate non-complex transformations. If you require digging through a folder hierarchy and saving to the same locations within that hierarchy, then you need to move over to scripting, which would be Applescript for the Mac and Javascript for Windows or cross-platform functionality. That would be an entirely separate discussion outside of simply providing you a script for you to insert your own transformation code.

PS CS1 or PS 7? I had to look up old reviews to remember the feature set. Bridge, which unfortunately didn't ship until CS2, has a script called "Image Processor" that makes this easy -- it allows you to override the Save location in the Action.

In 7 or CS, I think your best option would be to toggle on the dialog for the save command in your action click the little blank square beside the checkbox), so you can manually provide the save directory using a Paste keyboard shortcut.

If you've taken the time to record an action in Photoshop, or you've edited an existing action, you're going to want to save it, otherwise you run the risk if losing it if Photoshop decides to crash on you. Thankfully, Adobe has made it easy for us to save our actions, although there is one thing you need to be aware of. Photoshop does not allow us to save individual actions. We can only save action sets. So if you record or edit an action and want to save it (which of course you'll want to do), you'll need to select and save the entire action set. This is one of the main reasons why I suggested earlier that you should avoid placing your own actions inside any of the action sets that Photoshop comes with. Keep all of your actions inside your own action sets, which will make it easy to save them, load them, and keep them organized.

To save an action set, first select the set you want to save in the Actions palette. I have a couple of actions inside my "My Actions" set - the "Soft Glow" action we created in the previous section and the "Improved Photo Corners" action, which is a customized version of the original "Photo Corners" action that comes with Photoshop. I want to save this action set, so I'll select it in the Actions palette:

With the action set selected, click on the menu icon in the top right corner of the Actions palette, or if you're using Photoshop CS2 or earlier, click on the small right-pointing arrow. This brings up the Actions palette's menu. Select Save Actions from the menu:

Photoshop will pop open the Save dialog box. Save your action set to a location on your computer where you'll be able to easily access it later. I've created a folder on my Desktop named "Actions" and I'll save the "My Actions" set into this folder. This will make it easy for me to find the action set later if I need to load it back into Photoshop. Make sure you save your action set with the extension ".atn" after the name if you want your actions to be playable on both a PC and a Mac. When you're ready, click on the Save icon in the dialog box to save your actions:

Your actions are now saved! If Photoshop crashes at this point, your actions will be safe. Of course, if your computer crashes, you'll probably lose Photoshop, your actions and everything else, so I would highly suggest backing up your actions on to a recordable CD or DVD, or on to an external hard drive just in case.

Now that we've saved our actions, let's clear everything out of the Actions palette and reset it to just the Default Actions set. To do that, click once again on the menu icon in the top right corner of the Actions palette, or the small arrow if you're using a version of Photoshop prior to CS3, and select Reset Actions from the menu:

Photoshop will pop up a warning box, as if often does, asking if you really want to replace the existing actions with the Default Actions set. Click OK to close the dialog box and rest your actions:

Now that we've cleared out and cleaned up our Actions palette, let's load the action set we saved a moment ago. Click on the menu icon (or the small right-pointing arrow) in the top right corner of the Actions palette to bring up the menu, then select Load Actions from the menu choices:

This brings up the Load dialog box. Navigate to where you saved your action set on your computer, select the action set, then click on the Load button in the dialog box. My action set was saved to a folder named "Actions" on my Desktop, so that's where I'll navigate to. I'll click on the "My Actions" set, then I'll click Load:

Notice how the action set appears already twirled open in the Actions palette. That's because it was twirled open when I saved it. Action sets will appear either opened or closed after being loaded in to the Actions palette depending on how they appeared when they were saved.

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Now, the "Save for Web & Devices" does all nice stuff, including saving it with a specific name to a specific folder.Somehow, when I try to Batch this Action, I'm not able to tell Photoshop NOT to use the name (and probably location) as defined in the "Save for Web & Devices". As a result, Photoshop keeps on overwriting the output previous files in the batch, leaving me with only the transformed rendition of the last file in the batch.

To verify if your Action will maintain the original name or override the same file many times you can check the Action in the Actions Panel, Unser the "export" command you will see the "In" property.If that includes just a path without a file name then it will work as expected, however if it includes a file name at the end of the path then the problem of overriding will occur.

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