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Seamus28993618yai1
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March 6, 2025
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Brushes move to bottom of brush library randomly while I am painting

  • March 6, 2025
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I do a lot of digitial illustration with lots of brushes, all neatly organized in folders. For the past six months or so I've noticed that a brush I am using will, seemingly at random, move out from it's designtated folder down to the bottom of my entire brush library. So I'll go to select a new brush (by right clicking while using the brush tool to bring up the library) and discover the brush I'm currently using is now is at the bottom of the list. Then I have to drag it back up and find the place in the folder where I had placed it originally.

 

Is it possible there is a shortcut for "Send brush to end of library" that I'm accidentally hitting? or is this a weird bug? Any help would be greatyl appreciated, because it's maddening.

 

Most up to date photoshop, Mac OS.

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c.pfaffenbichler
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c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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March 7, 2025

The Bush is then definitely absent in its original Group? 

Have you saved the atn-file? 

 

Could you please post screenshots with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Brushes, Options Bar, …) visible? 

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Seamus28993618yai1Author
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March 7, 2025

Yeah, the brush is absent in its original group... like it's been automatically moved to the bottom of the panel. I've only noticed it happen with the right click panel that opens when using brushes, because that's how I move through my brushes.

 

I haven't saved the atn-file. what is that?

c.pfaffenbichler
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c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 7, 2025

Sorry, i meant abr-file.

The file format photoshop brushes are saved as.

    MassC
    MassC
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    March 6, 2025

    Hey @Seamus28993618yai1, 

     

    That sounds strange indeed. Can you share your system info? You can find this by going to Help > System Info copying and pasting into a text file and attaching it here. IF possible, can you also share a video of the issue? This would be helpful in helping us narrow down the issue. 

     

    ^CM

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      Seamus28993618yai1Author
      Participant
      March 7, 2025

        Model Name: MacBook Pro

        Model Identifier: Mac14,10

        Model Number: Z174000EBLL/A

        Chip: Apple M2 Pro

        Total Number of Cores: 12 (8 performance and 4 efficiency)

        Memory: 32 GB

        System Firmware Version: 11881.81.4

        OS Loader Version: 11881.81.4

        Serial Number (system): J6R6QW6X75

        Hardware UUID: 833EECE4-6910-5300-B454-AF0952A99492

        Provisioning UDID: 00006020-0014093A3633C01E

        Activation Lock Status: Disabled

       

      It's a work machine so I cant do a video for security reasons

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