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Paul Furman

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:03 pm
Post subject: Actions stopped working
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All my actions do nothing in CS1, both the default and custom actions.
Highlight an action, press the play button & absolutely nothing happens.
I tried googling & found nothing. I'm on a new vista box with plenty of
ram, not much space on the C drive left though (17GB). Any thoughts? I
did reboot.

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Paul Furman

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:24 pm
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Paul Furman wrote:
> All my actions do nothing in CS1, both the default and custom actions.
> Highlight an action, press the play button & absolutely nothing happens.
> I tried googling & found nothing. I'm on a new vista box with plenty of
> ram, not much space on the C drive left though (17GB). Any thoughts? I
> did reboot.

So as a test, I recorded a new action and that one works fine. In the
menu, 'Save Actions' is grayed out, then I try reloading from my past
..atn file & it says: 'Could not load the actions because the file is not
compatible with this version of photoshop (CS1 which I used to create
the file).

I'm hesitant to Clear All, Reset or Replace as there are a couple recent
additions I don't think I've saved. I am able to load other atn files.

So... I copied an old backup with new name and it works but is missing a
couple years of work Sad not that hard to redo but annoying.

I would still like to recover the file. And I still can't save new actions.

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KatWoman

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:57 pm
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"Paul Furman" <paul- RemoveThis @-edgehill.net> wrote in message
news:zZ3jk.5865$np7.2924@flpi149.ffdc.sbc.com...
> Paul Furman wrote:
>> All my actions do nothing in CS1, both the default and custom actions.
>> Highlight an action, press the play button & absolutely nothing happens.
>> I tried googling & found nothing. I'm on a new vista box with plenty of
>> ram, not much space on the C drive left though (17GB). Any thoughts? I
>> did reboot.
>
> So as a test, I recorded a new action and that one works fine. In the
> menu, 'Save Actions' is grayed out, then I try reloading from my past .atn
> file & it says: 'Could not load the actions because the file is not
> compatible with this version of photoshop (CS1 which I used to create the
> file).
>
> I'm hesitant to Clear All, Reset or Replace as there are a couple recent
> additions I don't think I've saved. I am able to load other atn files.
>
> So... I copied an old backup with new name and it works but is missing a
> couple years of work Sad not that hard to redo but annoying.
>
> I would still like to recover the file. And I still can't save new
> actions.
>
> --

so many times the problem is a corrupted PRESETS folder
copy it to a safe spot and delete it
when you restart PS it will make a new one in default settings
close ps
then try and copy those old actions into the new action folder
re-open PS see if it worked
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Johan W. Elzenga

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:34 pm
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Paul Furman <paul-.DeleteThis@-edgehill.net> wrote:

> I would still like to recover the file. And I still can't save new actions.

Just to make sure you are not trying something that cannot be done:
Remember that you cannot save individual actions. You can only save
action SETS.


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Paul Furman

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:43 am
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Johan W. Elzenga wrote:
> Paul Furman <paul- RemoveThis @-edgehill.net> wrote:
>
>> I would still like to recover the file. And I still can't save new actions.
>
> Just to make sure you are not trying something that cannot be done:
> Remember that you cannot save individual actions. You can only save
> action SETS.

Ah, thanks!
-solved that part

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(Msg. 6) Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:04 am
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KatWoman wrote:
> "Paul Furman" <paul- DeleteThis @-edgehill.net> wrote in message
> news:zZ3jk.5865$np7.2924@flpi149.ffdc.sbc.com...
>> Paul Furman wrote:
>>> All my actions do nothing in CS1, both the default and custom actions.
>>> Highlight an action, press the play button & absolutely nothing happens.
>>> I tried googling & found nothing. I'm on a new vista box with plenty of
>>> ram, not much space on the C drive left though (17GB). Any thoughts? I
>>> did reboot.
>> So as a test, I recorded a new action and that one works fine. In the
>> menu, 'Save Actions' is grayed out, then I try reloading from my past .atn
>> file & it says: 'Could not load the actions because the file is not
>> compatible with this version of photoshop (CS1 which I used to create the
>> file).
>>
>> I'm hesitant to Clear All, Reset or Replace as there are a couple recent
>> additions I don't think I've saved. I am able to load other atn files.
>>
>> So... I copied an old backup with new name and it works but is missing a
>> couple years of work Sad not that hard to redo but annoying.
>>
>> I would still like to recover the file. And I still can't save new
>> actions.
>>
>> --
>
> so many times the problem is a corrupted PRESETS folder
> copy it to a safe spot and delete it
> when you restart PS it will make a new one in default settings
> close ps
> then try and copy those old actions into the new action folder
> re-open PS see if it worked

Thanks Kat!

Oddly I tried removing the whole presets folder and it had zero effect.
I suspect the 'real' data is in some hidden Vista folder somewhere. This
is the one I saw:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS\Presets
there is still this file in the folder above:
Default Tool Presets.tpl

A full search of the C drive didn't find anything else.

reboot?

Smile

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