Photoshop "Edit Presets" not seeing most of the .abr brush files Mac Finder see's... Why?

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October 14, 2017
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Photoshop CC 2015.5 Edit > Presets > "Export Presets" panel only showing one brush preset file to export, yet 16 .abr files exist in the Presets > Brushes folder (Mac OS-X Finder). How do I get the other 15 .abr files to show in the brushes preset panels (presets export, preset manager Brushes Load, load Brushes... they all access the same Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5 > Presets > Brushes folder, but are not seeing the other 15 .abr files the MAC OS-X finder displays. I think I might have invoked the replace Brushes command making them all disappear except for the new addition and can't seem to get them back, yet they still exist as .abr files in the same presets brushes folder. I wonder if the Photoshop Presets manager is sourcing a cached instance of the folder while the Mac Finder is looking at the physical presets brushes folder. Although they follow the same path, they are seeing different content! How do I get the "Presets Manager" to see what the Mac Finder see's at the selected folder location.

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c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

I think you (Edit: or rather the Export/Import Presets functionality) are accessing the User Library Brushes-folder not the application Brushes-folder.

Could you post meaningful screenshot to clarify where the files in question are situated?

FlexigavAuthor

Known Participant

I think you are right. The .abr brush files are held in the Application Presets Brushes folder. When I followed the full path of the files I could load as brushes through the Preset Manager panel they were in a different folder in my user library section. So what has happened is I made a wrong choice when adding a new brush by not appending it to the existing list. So the new brush replaced all the other brush presets in the user library presets brush area. I can't be sure whether they were the default brushes, or other brushes I may have added a long time ago but never used. What I can say is that even though the brushes in the user library presets list have been replaced by a single new brush I added incorrectly, all the default brushes are still available in the brush selection palette. The question is how do I get the brush presets that were in the user library preset brushes folder back again?

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c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

All the abr-files from both Brushes Folder should be available from the Brush Presets flyout-menu.

So what has happened is I made a wrong choice when adding a new brush by not appending it to the existing list. So the new brush replaced all the other brush presets in the user library presets brush area.

What are you saying?

You saved one single Brush Preset as an abr File and overwrote the one single abr File in the Library Brushes Folder?

Could you post screenshots to clarify the file-situation?

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