lost my actions

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rjoyce
Dec 4, 2006
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I am using Photoshop CS2 and windows xp pro with 2 monitors. (the 2 monitors lets me establish a workspace with all of the menus on 1 and the open images in the other.) Last night I got the blue screen of death as windows froze. When I turned off and back on Photoshop ran as if I’d just used for the first time. The Bridge no longer starts automatically when photoshop starts. And my biggest problem is that all of my previously established Actions are no longer there. The name of the Action set that they were saved under is still in the list – but the actions themselves are gone. Is there any way of retrieving them?
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Rob_Keijzer
Dec 4, 2006
If you hadn’t saved the actions deliberately, they were only cached in the photoshop preferences file (.psp)

Since you mentioned that PS recovered with factory defaults, this implies that that file is corrupted.

You can try a search for "*preferences.psp" to see if you can recover the file.

Also, all action files have "atn" as their extention. Try to look for them.

Also find and cure the cause of the BSOD. Must be hardware or driver related.

Not that it helps now, but I make a habit of backing up the Photoshop Settings folder every now and then. When things faul up I can retrieve a good one from the Backup.

Rob
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rjoyce
Dec 4, 2006
Thanks Rob. And I suppose that since I found no *.psp files tells me that I’ve learned a lesson the hard way?
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Michael_D_Sullivan
Dec 6, 2006
rj, make sure you have hidden files showing in Windows Explorer (Tools > Folder Options > View > Show Hidden Files and Folders), and in Search, click on Advanced Options and tick hidden files. Otherwise, you won’t see the preference files.

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