Transfering Actions from CS2 to CS2?

I recently added a larger, second internal hard drive to my desktop, and had to reinstall PS CS2. Everything went fine, but I don't know how to transfer all the batch files I created in CS2 from my old hard drive to the new one. (I've already gone into the Automate subfolder under Plugins, and the batch files aren't there...). I have my old CS2 on an external hard drive, and reinstalled CS2 on my new 250GB internal boot drive.

The Adobe site talks about transfering from CS -- saving an action set ATN file and importing from the new CS2. But what if I can't open the old photoshop since it is resident on an external drive now (I took the internal drive out and put it in a case so I could put a larger internal drive in the computer)?

Is there any other way to retrieve the action files?

Can I open CS2 on another computer through my external hard drive, assuming the ATN files are still sitting somewhere?

Help please! I don't want to have to recreate all my actions again...

Ron

Assuming you saved these actions implicitly (by clicking "Save Actions" from the fly-out on the Actions pallette), you will be able to simply copy the .atn files from the old presets folder into the new.

If not, you will have to fire up the old installation and do this "Save" to create the .atn files.

Ron, in Windows Explorer (My Computer), search your old drive for "Actions Palette.psp" (without the quotes, of course). Copy that file to the same path on your new drive.

In addition to Joe's advice, you'll note there are other presets that you can optionally transfer, like brushes, patterns, etc.

It's not unusual for Actions Palette.psp to be "hidden."

If you can't find it on the first pass, change the Windows' view setting to "show hidden files/folders" and try again.

Don't get in a habit of copying preferences files.

It's much safer to save the actions and then load them in the new version.

Chris, it's the same version in this case.

OOps, I misread the message.