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pp4841592
Inspiring
April 22, 2019
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ALL BRUSHES ARE GONE AFTER RECENT UPDATE ...

  • April 22, 2019
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Hi,

all my over the last few month downloaded and installed brushes are gone after the recent Photoshop Update! Where are they? I did not delete them and I can not find them in the brushes panel.

Where did Photoshop store my brushes when I installed some downloaded or custom made brushes? How is the path to this custom installed brushes if i imported them, because I have several time machine backups of the last few weeks, where my installed brushes are for shure included, but I do not know, where they are.

In Application/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019/Presets/Brushes there are only "Converted Legacy Tool Presets.abr" and "Legacy Brushes.abr" but none of my huge collection of other brushes!

Is there another location where my installed brushes has been stored?

Please help me, do I have to install them all again?

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    Correct answer pp4841592

    Hi Akash,

    thank you so much :-) :-) ... I could restore all my brushes from the time machine backup by fetching back the user library preferences. I am so happy, thank you.

    Greets.

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    bopx
    Participant
    November 10, 2021

    I did not update like Akash said, but I'm also missing all my brushes and patterns that I made in the last 2 years. There were here yesterday and they are not here this morning. I didn't update between, I just got an error that my gradients were corrupt, and those were gone too. If I didn't make backups of my library, how do I get them back??

      guacamuller
      guacamuller
      Participant
      November 21, 2021

      Exactly the same thing is happenning to me.

      H
      hernandezj661
      Participant
      September 9, 2020

      they keep getting removed and I have "Import Previous Settings and Preferences". 

        AlanaB33
        AlanaB33
        Participant
        December 16, 2020

        Same here. EVERY time there is an update I lose ALL of my styles, swatches, brushes and actions. It sucks.

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          NicolelAlene
          Participating Frequently
          December 11, 2023

          Does this still happen to you with the 2023/2024 updates?

          I'm about to lose my mind having to reinstall all my styles/actions/brushes with every update or if I have to delete the app to fix something else.

          Akash Sharma
          Akash Sharma
          Legend
          April 22, 2019

          Hi pp4841592,

          Sorry that your custom brush library in Photoshop is missing after a recent app update.

          It seems that the Preferences in Creative Cloud desktop was left marked checked when you updated the app. To keep or not keep prior version preferences (which includes presets, brushes, actions, workspaces), make sure that's unchecked: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html#Autoupdate?mv=product&mv...

          Otherwise, make back ups of your user library to make copies of your preferences and presets. Locations can be found here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/preference-file-names-locations-photoshop.html

          I'd recommend that you re install the presets again.

          Thanks,

          Akash

          pp4841592
          pp4841592AuthorCorrect answer
          Inspiring
          April 23, 2019

          Hi Akash,

          thank you so much :-) :-) ... I could restore all my brushes from the time machine backup by fetching back the user library preferences. I am so happy, thank you.

          Greets.

            Akash Sharma
            Akash Sharma
            Legend
            April 23, 2019

            Thanks for the update.

            Glad you were able to restore brushes from TimeMachine. 

            ~Akash

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