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Custom Patterns

Community Beginner ,
Jun 29, 2025 Jun 29, 2025

How do I recover my custom patterns once the update is done. They are all gone.

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Jun 29, 2025 Jun 29, 2025

what app?

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 29, 2025 Jun 29, 2025

photoshop 2025

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Community Expert ,
Jun 29, 2025 Jun 29, 2025

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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Community Expert ,
Jun 29, 2025 Jun 29, 2025

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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Community Beginner ,
Jun 29, 2025 Jun 29, 2025

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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Community Expert ,
Jun 30, 2025 Jun 30, 2025
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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. 

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
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Community Expert ,
Jun 29, 2025 Jun 29, 2025

On the Mac side look in Macintosh HD/Users/UserName/Library/Application Support/Adobe

for Adobe Photoshop your version>Presets

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 29, 2025 Jun 29, 2025

There's not a folder named presets in there

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Community Expert ,
Jun 29, 2025 Jun 29, 2025

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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Community Expert ,
Jun 29, 2025 Jun 29, 2025

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:

  • I keep those assets safe from updates that go wrong.
  • I share the same assets between current release, beta, and any previous versions (I keep V22.2 for Lighting Effects)

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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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Community Beginner ,
Jun 30, 2025 Jun 30, 2025
I know you are so right. I normally save them but I didn’t think it was going to be gone with an update and had some new custom patterns I totally lost. Lesson learned! I checked in my library an all and it’s empty, bummer. The only thing that saves me in a way is that my files that contained these patterns are save with in so I can pull them from there whenever I open the file again. This time around I created a folder with all my customs and exported them to save onto my desktop.
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