ALL BRUSHES ARE GONE AFTER RECENT UPDATE ...

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April 22, 2019
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Hi,

all my over the last few month downloaded and installed brushes are gone after the recent Photoshop Update! Where are they? I did not delete them and I can not find them in the brushes panel.

Where did Photoshop store my brushes when I installed some downloaded or custom made brushes? How is the path to this custom installed brushes if i imported them, because I have several time machine backups of the last few weeks, where my installed brushes are for shure included, but I do not know, where they are.

In Application/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019/Presets/Brushes there are only "Converted Legacy Tool Presets.abr" and "Legacy Brushes.abr" but none of my huge collection of other brushes!

Is there another location where my installed brushes has been stored?

Please help me, do I have to install them all again?

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Correct answer pp4841592

Hi Akash,

thank you so much :-) :-) ... I could restore all my brushes from the time machine backup by fetching back the user library preferences. I am so happy, thank you.

Greets.

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bopx

Participant

I did not update like Akash said, but I'm also missing all my brushes and patterns that I made in the last 2 years. There were here yesterday and they are not here this morning. I didn't update between, I just got an error that my gradients were corrupt, and those were gone too. If I didn't make backups of my library, how do I get them back??

guacamuller

Participant

Exactly the same thing is happenning to me.

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hernandezj661

Participant

they keep getting removed and I have "Import Previous Settings and Preferences".

AlanaB33

Participant

Same here. EVERY time there is an update I lose ALL of my styles, swatches, brushes and actions. It sucks.

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David5FD2

Participant

and it just happened again today, with no warning of course - what a pain in the arse

Akash Sharma

Legend

Hi pp4841592,

Sorry that your custom brush library in Photoshop is missing after a recent app update.

It seems that the Preferences in Creative Cloud desktop was left marked checked when you updated the app. To keep or not keep prior version preferences (which includes presets, brushes, actions, workspaces), make sure that's unchecked: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html#Autoupdate?mv=product&mv...

Otherwise, make back ups of your user library to make copies of your preferences and presets. Locations can be found here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/preference-file-names-locations-photoshop.html

I'd recommend that you re install the presets again.

Thanks,

Akash

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Kia Phua

Participant

still the same problem in2023!! something so important and is a small checkmark?? Make it a prompt at least!!! Lost all my custom brushes in the latest update.....countless prompt for update but not a single one for something so important as retaining your preferences....stupid Adobe