Almost recovered from the Crash

Yesterday I had to be just operational enough to finish 15 files for a client that were due by Friday. I had yet to install half of my applications, and almost none of my preferences. It took awhile, but I was able to find the right driver for my LaCie monitor, which had to be done so my Monaco profiler could calibrate it, because no photo editing can be done without a profiled monitor. I just barely had Photoshop installed with the minimal preferences set, but with none of my library of Actions (does anyone know where actions that you write are stored? I appear to have lost them.) After 6 hours of work, with a 15 minute break for lunch, I had a disk in a Fedex envelope.

Comments

[Josh Wand]

Little-known "feature: unless you explicitly save them, your actions are NOT saved anywhere, except in your prefs.

hmmn, typepad seems to not want to let me post the link to my blog in the url field...

[guy]

Regarding the photoshop actions,
They are saved in the following file:

C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\9.0\Adobe Photoshop CS2 Settings\Actions Palette.psp

It might look like a shortcut, but it's not

I hope you managed to restore them

I have a little program backing up all my important preferences on a daily basis, since that is the stuff that REALLY takes time when restoring a system from a crash...

Another good idea is to start recording an action before you start changing any preferences on a fresh installation of PS. This way all your preferences are stored in an action.

Good luck

[David]

Guy is right, but unless you saved those actions - exported them, essentially, before re-installing Photoshop, they're gone, baby.

I'm new to your blolg, but thoroughly enjoying it - thank you.