What’s the Deal with Installing Actions on Lion?

Mac is certainly making things difficult on us action lovers lately.

First, there’s the mess regarding Elements purchased from the App Store, and how you can’t install most actions into it.

Now, Lion is making it difficult for us to find the main Mac Hard Drive.

If you’ve installed actions on a Mac before, you know that you have to begin the navigation path on the main Mac HD.  You can’t start on your specific user account – it won’t work.

However, the new Lion Finder doesn’t have a Mac HD option in the sidebar.  You have two options for finding it:

• You might have a Mac HD shortcut on your desktop.  If so, click on that, then follow the navigation path as usual (Library, Application Support, Adobe, etc.).
• OR, on the Finder sidebar, right click on Applications.  Select “Open Enclosing Folder” and you’ll be inside the Mac HD finder.  Follow the path as usual (Library, Application Support, Adobe, yada yada).

After finding the Mac HD, there is nothing at all different about install actions in Lion.  You can find instructions for installing here.

And don’t forget, don’t purchase Elements from the App Store if you want to use actions!