Is There a Way to Recover Photoshop CC Brushes After a Computer Wipe?

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September 6, 2024
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I recently had to have my computer wiped to remove some malware and now I appear to have lost most of my Photoshop cc brushes. Is it possible to retreive them? Were they possibly stored in the cloud? I have a PC and I'm using Photoshop version 25.11.0.

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Correct answer Bojan Živković11378569

By default, any new brush you create is only stored in the Brushes panel and is not saved elsewhere. All unsaved brushes, presets, and actions are temporarily kept in a Preferences file. Your only chance of retrieving unsaved brushes from that file is if you have regular backups; otherwise, if you lose them, they cannot be retrieved and will be permanently lost.

So remember to always save presets, including brushes, as files on your drive and to back them up regularly, just in case. Saved brushes can be lost due to significant computer failures.

Bojan Živković11378569

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By default, any new brush you create is only stored in the Brushes panel and is not saved elsewhere. All unsaved brushes, presets, and actions are temporarily kept in a Preferences file. Your only chance of retrieving unsaved brushes from that file is if you have regular backups; otherwise, if you lose them, they cannot be retrieved and will be permanently lost.

So remember to always save presets, including brushes, as files on your drive and to back them up regularly, just in case. Saved brushes can be lost due to significant computer failures.