Voivod wrote:
Contrary to what many people think, the actions still do not get loaded automatically if you put them in that folder. Yes, they do show up under
I never said they did.
I never said you said they did. I just pointed out that ‘Put them in the Actions folder’ is *not* the correct (at least not the complete) answer to the question ‘How do I load an action?’
the popup menu so loading them becomes easier, but that’s all. Also, Photoshop needs to be restarted before it sees new actions in that folder. But I guess you conveniently forgot that. Consequently, if you
You’re assuming things you can’t possibly know trying to defend a bullshit statement. Quit while you’re behind.
I’m assuming that if somebody wants to load an action, he/she is already running Photoshop at that time. That may not always be the case, but I think it’s a fairly logical assumption. Putting an ‘.ATN’ file in the ‘Actions’ folder accomplishes nothing in that situation. Photoshop will still not show it in the fly-out menu, and you still have to load it manually. Just like I said. And even if Photoshop is restarted, you still have to load it. Just like I said. My statement was 100% correct.
have Photoshop open already and have the actions on your desktop or so, it’s a lot easier and certainly faster to just choose ‘Load Actions’ than to move them to that folder, stop Photoshop, start Photoshop, and load them from the fly-out menu.
Goodness, what a brilliant idea! That way you can leave bits and pieces of Photoshop everywhere on your drive and then spend hours trying to remember where you put the shit instead of just doing it right the first time.
Once you’ve loaded an action it remains available in the Actions palette in Photoshop, also after a restart. It’s there until you delete it again from that palette. You don’t need that ‘.ATN’ file any longer, so it’s irrelevant from which location you loaded it in the first place. *IF* you want to keep that file as well, the ‘Actions’ folder is the logical place, but only *if* you want to keep it.
I often load actions just to see if they are useful to me. Mostly they are not, so I delete them again. Loading them directly from my downloads folder by double clicking on the ‘.ATN’ file is by far the easiest way to do that.
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