Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ATN file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert ATN to another file type
To convert your ATN file to another format, you need Adobe Photoshop or other Settings software.
Convert a file to ATN
To convert other file formats to the "Automation Script" file type, you need software like Adobe Photoshop or a similar tool.
About ATN files
The .ATN file format is a proprietary binary container used by Adobe Photoshop to store 'Actions' - recorded sequences of commands that automate repetitive editing tasks. These files are essential for batch processing, applying complex color grades, or resizing images automatically. However, the .ATN format acts as a 'black box.' Because it uses a complex, internal binary structure based on Adobe's descriptor keys, you cannot open it in a text editor to view the steps or modify parameters without loading it into Photoshop first. This is a common problem: you cannot audit downloaded actions for malicious steps, version compatibility is often hit-or-miss between Creative Cloud updates, and you are locked into the Adobe ecosystem to even view the logic. For documentation or debugging, users should convert .ATN files to TXT or XML to reveal the internal command structure. For cross-platform automation that is robust against version changes, the best practice is converting the logic from .ATN to JSX (ExtendScript).
Convert.Guru analyzes your ATN file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert ATN file to XML, XMP, INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV or PROPERTIES, you can use Adobe Photoshop or similar software from the "Photoshop Automation Macros" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to ATN, try Adobe Photoshop or another comparable tool in the "Photoshop Automation Macros" category.
The ATN Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our ATN converter.