When your brushes disappear and you lose your work organising them.

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Hi All,

I've read the posts about where to find brushes after they disappear from Photoshop on startup. That part isn't the problem. I structured my brushes pallate so that certain brushes from certain packs of downloaded brushes were in specific folders which I had named and organised so I could find them. Everything was fine for a few months until today when I rebooted the computer and discovered that the brushes were no longer in my panel. I understand that I can reload them, but I've lost the work I did selecting and organising them into dedicted folders.

Is it just accepted that you will lose your Photoshop brushes randomly? That seems to be what's implied in the other forum posts about this. Why does this happen? Is it a bug, or does Photoshop not want you to use custom brushes?

How can I save the work I put into structuring the brushes panel so that it doesn't get lost next time this happens?

I'm running CC on a five year old iMac

Leslie Moak Murray · Answer

After this happened to me a few times (I'm in CS6), I started saving my brushes to my computer and naming them with the date. They save as an .abr file, so you can easily reload them. I know this doesn't answer the technical question (because I don't know why it happens), but I'm sure someone else can. All I can do is advise you to save them somewhere besides in the Photoshop brush panel.  The next time it happens, when I load the saved brushes they go in the same order in which I had organized them.

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