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Adobe photoshop deleted my brushes again

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
February 4, 2022
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Read my previous post before this one, I had created new brushes similar to the ones I had before and SAVED THEM as a custom abr file

So it deleted my brushes again and I wanted to import them but somehow they were ALSO deleted, yes the ones I saved as a custom brush file onto my laptop. I I would never delete them, they are very important to me

Nothing in the recycling bin either

Someone please tell me what the hell is happening? This made me very upset

Windows

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melissapiccone

Community Expert

This issue comes up often. Make a folder far away from your app folders. I call mine Adobe extras and have a bunch of sub folders for all of my presets - brushes, patterns, actions, etc. save everything in there. I have stuff rom the 90's. I have mine in Dropbox. You can also save brushes to your library. Super easy to select and you don't have to install them.

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lc55472355

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I regularly copy all the preset folders from inside the Photoshop program to a safe location on my computer so that I have a backup copy if something goes wrong. However I have heard of people bypassing the preset folders within Photoshop completely and using their "remote" folder to load brushes, save new brushes they have created, etc. Can this truly be done, and if so how do I load a brush when I'm working in Photoshop and save a newly created brush to a group?

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I do a similar thing, but copy the entire C:\Users\[usere name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe folder tree when doing a Clean Windows install. It is much easier doing this with multiple drives of course.

Looking at your question, I don't see why you couldn't do the same thing that I do with plugins. This is on a Windows 10 system. I keep my older filters (the ones that don't need to be installed, but rather copy .bli files to the plugin folder) to a folder in My Documents,

Find the folder in File Explorer, and right click and choose Send to > Create shortcut (to desktop)

Then drag that shortcut to:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2023\Plug-ins\Filters

It would be easy to addapt this for brushes.

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Camilla2405531156c2

Participant

Same problem.

Brushes are suddenly gone and my brushes folder is empty now.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Did you ever save your custom Brushes as abr-files?

Where did you copy the abr-files if you downloaded some?

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Camilla2405531156c2

Participant

I did add them in Photoshop but I didn't export them. Is there any way I can update them without having to export them again every time?

Chris 486

Community Expert

Hi Ava07230!

Have you tried doing a search on your comptuer? I would navigate to your "This PC" location in an explorer window and search for "*.abr". Make sure your search options has all sub folders selected. That should search all your files and drives. it may take a while. Hopefully the file you are looking for will be found.

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