Actions won’t load in cs4

Well today I rushed to download the cs4 suite.
Everything works fine but the problem is that I can’t load my previously saved actions. It seems that it can’t read the .atn file.
When I choose the load action command I browse where my actions are saved but the folder looks like it’s blank?
Anyone knows why this is happening?

Just Drag & Drop a COPY of all of the Action Sets from where ever you currently keep them into CS4’s Presets/Actions Folder and all of your Sets will then appear in the lower part of the Actions Panel’s pop-out menu.

Well I’ve tried that already but nothing shows up….

Nothing shows up in the ACTIONS Palette’s pop-out menu — once you have physically moved all of your Action Sets into CS4’s Presets/Actions folder?

They all show-up in mine.

Try re-starting Photoshop.

Also Repair Permissions both before AND after installing CS4.

Routine maintenance is imperative.

I still advocate Repairing Permissions (with Apple’s Disk Utility) before AND after any system update or upgrade, as well as before AND after installing any software that requires an installer that asks for your password.

I have seen software installations go sour because the installer did not find everything as and where it should be.

I have also seen software installations go bad because the installer did not clean up after itself properly and did not leave everything as and where it should be.

This is just my own personal opinion and practice based on my own observations. Others may disagree and that’s OK. I can only base my routines and my advice to others on my own experience and conclusion. I don’t pretend to know why others believe otherwise.

Repairing Permissions after the fact (i. e. not immediately before and after an install) seldom helps.; Try it anyway, though.

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Additionally, if your machine does not run 24/7 so that it runs the daily, weekly and monthly Cron Scripts in the middle of the night as intended by Apple, run Cocktail (shareware) as well.

Cron Scripts are maintenance routines designed by Apple to run on a daily, weekly and monthly basis in the middle of the night.

If you don’t run them, you WILL run into trouble, sooner rather than later.

Here’s an excerpt from the Apple tech doc <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107388>

Mac OS X performs background maintenance tasks at certain times if the computer is not in sleep mode. If your computer is shut down or in sleep at the designated times, the maintenance does not occur. In that case, you may want or need to run these manually.

Mac OS X periodically runs background tasks that, in part, remove system files that are no longer needed. This includes purging older information from log files or deleting certain temporary items. These tasks do not run if the computer is shut down or in sleep mode. If the tasks do not run, it is possible that certain log files (such as system.log) may become very large.
Also, from: <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106978>

The disk activity generated by find is a normal part of file system maintenance, used for tasks such as removing invisible temporary files that are used by the system. It is scheduled to occur early in the morning at 03:15 everyday, 04:30 on Saturdays, and 05:30 on the first day of each month.

NOTE: There have been comments to the effect that Apple "fixed" this in 10.4.2 and later versions of the OS, but I have not been able to verify this to my satisfaction. The reference in the 10.4.2 release notes are far from explicit on this subject.

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If you have DiskWarrior, run it regularly too.

Well repairing permissions did nothing to cure the problem. I bet background maintenance tasks will do nothing as well since these tasks have nothing to do with this sort of problem. On top of that in Leopard you don’t have to do these tasks anymore.
I will try it though because I’m desperate!!!
Any other ideas?

I feel sooooo stupid!!!
Well it seems that action folders don’t automatically load in the actions window. You have to select them from the drop down menu….
Well I didn’t know thaaat!!!!

Check that you have actually copied all of your old Actions into CS4’s Presets/Actions folder.

When you go to the Actions Panel’s fly-out menu, you should now see all of your Action Sets listed at the bottom of the List.

You don’t have to Load them — just click the Set in the list that you want and it will immediately be added to your Active Actions.

You discovered that while I was typing! But I am glad that you did!

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