Photoshop 22.2: Brushes and Patterns Gone

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March 3, 2021
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I had a ton of brushes and patterns from actions I have installed and even tho all the actions are there, all of my brushes and patterns have disappeared. This happened with the 22.2.0 release. 😞

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melissapiccone

Community Expert

There have been quite a few posts about this recently. Never save your custom presets in the application folders. Always save them far away from the PS folder. Mine are all saved in Dropbox. Photoshop will overwrite everything when it's upgraded.

Melissa Piccone | Adobe Trainer | Online Courses Author | Fine Artist

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dougsooleyAuthor

Inspiring

I have online backups of everything...what folder would I look for on my backups.

melissapiccone

Community Expert

Search for the extension, .abr and .pat. That's what I do when I'm not sure where everything is located.

Melissa Piccone | Adobe Trainer | Online Courses Author | Fine Artist

Akash Sharma

Legend

Hi there,

Sorry that brushes and patterns in Photoshop 22.2 are missing.

Would you mind sharing the operating system version you're working with?

To start with troubleshooting, please checkout the steps mentioned in this article https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/presets-actions-plugins.html and let us know if that helps.

Thanks,

Akash

Jumpenjax

Community Expert

I go to the Applications folder open the previous version of photoshop folder/presets/brushes/copy .abt files then go to you newer version folder of photoshop folder/presets/brushes and paste. Then reload in newer version of photoshop.

Lee- Graphic Designer, Print Specialist, Photographer

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dougsooleyAuthor

Inspiring

That did not work. I copied the folders but the other brushes are still missing.

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