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How do I recover my custom patterns once the update is done. They are all gone.
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what app?
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photoshop 2025
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in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/
p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post (like this one has already been moved) if it helps you get responses.
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I found mine in my previously installed version of Photoshop.
On Windows, C:\Users\[YourUsername]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop [version]\Adobe Photoshop [version] Settings
. Within this folder, the Patterns.psp
file stores the list of loaded patterns. You can also find them within the Preset Manager under Edit > Preset Manager.
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I have a Mac. I looked under the library preferences but there's not a foldr of adobe photoshop to check
weird but all I did was install update and when i opened everything was gone brushes, actions, patterns ,styles, etc.
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You mean you didn't keep a PREVIOUS version of Photoshop?
I always keep old versions in case I ever need to revert.
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On the Mac side look in Macintosh HD/Users/UserName/Library/Application Support/Adobe
for Adobe Photoshop your version>Presets
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There's not a folder named presets in there
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Sounds like your not in your User Library folder.
The User Library is hidden by default on Macs as well as Windows.
Anyway, an easy way to see your User Library is to click on your desktop then in the Go menu press the Option key to see
Library, which is your User Library.
After you open the finder window by clicking Library navigate to
Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop your version>Presets
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Nancy, the regular posters here will be bored with seeing me say this, but you are not the first person to experience this, and I count myself as a victim. So I keep all presets in a My Documents/Finder folder, and place shortcuts that redirect to those folders in the relevant Photoshop presets folder.
It means that:
The downside is that if I create new presets, they are saved to the default location, so I have to remember to move them to my central cache — so to speak.
It's good practice to keep it in mind that assets live in the Photoshop settings file unless you export them. That means saving a group of brush presets to a .abr file, and the same with shapes, patterns, layer styles, gradients and any I have left out.. Custom Workspaces with their saved custom keyboard and toolbars just need the folder contents saved. It's just good Photoshop housekeeping, and saves frustration and heart ache
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