P: Where are the legacy default custom shapes?

That worked, but it is not in the shape format that we had, but I can live with it.  Thanks for the help.

Wow, what a pain!, I spent a lot of valuable design time looking for the arrow shapes we use in almost every design layout we create. Please Adobe, dont become like Apple and start to hide/remove useful stuff without making it easy to find/re-install. As designers we might not have the same brains as you software guys. Please consider us next time you want to 'play god' with your software.
Thanks

Okay, I'm with you on how they dealt with the Legacy Shapes. I have no clue why they assumed we'd not want them as much, if not more than the new shapes. Or thought of course we'd know exactly where to find them.  Though I do like having the new ones, too. I just have to remember that if I'm going to reset Preferences, I'd better get them into fewer sets that make sense to me and then save them as my own custom shape sets.

Once each individual has figured out Legacy Shapes(sigh), there's still the little matter of hiding the Options bar when we drag a shape onto our document using the Move tool or something like that. We can learn that the Options bar won't display Shape's options unless we select the Shape tool (it's consistent since the Options bar is for tools), but not having it anywhere, even in the Properties panel?  Most of us keep that open since we use it for Adjustment layers. Seems like a good place to put Shape options when a Shape layer is active.

Always more to wish for. . .

yeah, they kind of made a mistake by not making the location of where to load them from more obvious.

yeah, they kind of made a mistake by not making the location of where to load them from more obvious.

Functionality is reduced by removing access to a whole lot of very useful shapes, leaving only shapes that I can't imagine anyone using, hiding the means of reinstalling those shapes, and providing no help - either within the program or online - that points you to the ways you can reinstall those shapes. Even the Adobe help chat technician didn't know that they were gone, and didn't know how to reinstall them apart from reinstalling Photoshop 2019 and exporting the shapes, then reimporting them into Photoshop 2020

How exactly do you find functionality reduced?  It might help them improve on the feature if they understand what it was that you could do that you now can't do. I don't know what I can't do that I used to be able to do, but it's possible I used shapes in a more limited way than you.

I do think the bit about no fill/no stroke persisting  (as it always did if that was your last choice) but no Options bar making that obvious to you when you drag and drop a Shape without the Shape tool selected is rather awkward and disconcerting, because if you had the Shape tool selected you'd see the problem at once. But being aware of that, I don't otherwise know what I'm missing???

Why REDUCE functionality with an upgrade?? This is an incredibly retrograde step IMHO

It seems like the cog wheel menu in the Options bar might be a good place to add a command like "Open Shape Panel for more. . . " That could at least clue people in that there's another option to work with. It does work somewhat differently from the Options bar with a Shape tool. So as you explore it, expect it to be not exactly intuitive.

On the plus side, you can have any tool active when you drag a shape from the panel into your document, transform it into place, then hit enter/return to commit. On the negative side, you still need to have a shape tool selected to get the Options bar settings for fill and stroke, etc, if you have no Fill, No Stroke as last used in the Options bar. Hit enter/return, and you won't see your shape. However, if you DO have a Fill, you don't need your Shape tool— you can change it  with any tool active by clicking on a swatch in the Swatches panel or a pattern in the Pattern panel, etc. As far as I can tell, that doesn't work with an unfilled, unstroked shape. You have to make it an active selection (Cmd-click on the thumb) and drag a fill onto it, or select a Shape Tool and use the Options bar. I find the Shape tool method easier.<G>

So a bit complicated, yes? And also a bit nicer to be able to change a fill with any tool selected, and dragging a shape onto the canvas to transform it seems straightforward enough. It's mostly that the Options bar still plays a role when using the panel, but the panel plays no obvious role when using a Shape tool and the Options bar. (whew! I think I covered the most of it<g>)

I just found this. Probably more useful than what I tried to explain. It includes a video by Julieanne Kost.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/drawing-shapes.html

I didn't even know there was a window panel....
I just always used the shape tool options in the top application bar... which when you click the gear does not give you any ability to delete a folder (even though it duplicated them) nor does it give you the legacy shape options.

What a great place to hide useful tools Adobe.