I found what I believe to be a bug in Adobe CS (may also be in CS2) under Windows.
Can someone confirm this?
Your Action palette is stored in:
C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\8.0\Adobe Photoshop CS Settings\Actions Palette.psp
On my machine, this was actually stored as the file (same path):
Actions Palette.psp.lnk
which made Windows think it was a symbolic link file (it wasn't--it was the real action file, just named badly). CS was reading and using it fine, but my daily backup process was actually missing this file, since it doesn;t back up symbolic links! I found that out the hard way, since I needed to restore it today. Fortunately, I have a number of different redundant backup processes, and I have a backup of the file that's only a month old. I would have had a much more recent one if not for the bug, but I only lost a few actions.
WORKAROUND: Adobe is happy to use the file without the .lnk extension, so while CS isn't running, just rename the file to
Actions Palette.psp
and it will be labeled as the correct type of file, and backed up normally.
Message edited by author 2007-04-13 16:04:07. |
