There are 2 paths to presets folder. What is the correct path?

Question

There are 2 paths to the Presets folder and PS includes presets from both places.

Macintosh HD>users>myusername>Library>Application Support>Adobe>Adobe Photoshop 2022>Presets

and

Macintosh HD>Applications>Adobe Photoshop 2022>Presets

When I save a new action or want to save a new set of brushes, I'm not sure which folder to put them in. Why this redundency? It's a waste of space and creates confusion. I'm running PS 2022 on an iMac with Big Sur OS. I couldn't find in the PS preferences any way to specify the location of the presets folder. Any suggestions?

Stephen Marsh · Answer

If multiple people use the same program on the same computer via different user accounts, presets saved into the <username> path will be specific to that account. Perhaps some I.T. departments may also restrict access to the application/program folder.

With actions, it can also have a bearing on where the preset migration script looks for items:

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/01/photoshop-custom-action-file-backup.html

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