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dougsooley
Inspiring
March 3, 2021
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Photoshop 22.2: Brushes and Patterns Gone

  • March 3, 2021
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I had a ton of brushes and patterns from actions I have installed and even tho all the actions are there, all of my brushes and patterns have disappeared. This happened with the 22.2.0 release. 😞

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melissapiccone
Community Expert
melissapicconeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 3, 2021

There have been quite a few posts about this recently. Never save your custom presets in the application folders. Always save them far away from the PS folder. Mine are all saved in Dropbox. Photoshop will overwrite everything when it's upgraded. 

Melissa Piccone | Adobe Trainer | Online Courses Author | Fine Artist
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dougsooleyAuthor
Inspiring
March 3, 2021

I have online backups of everything...what folder would I look for on my backups.

melissapiccone
Community Expert
melissapicconeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 5, 2021

Search for the extension, .abr and .pat. That's what I do when I'm not sure where everything is located. 

Melissa Piccone | Adobe Trainer | Online Courses Author | Fine Artist
    Akash Sharma
    Akash Sharma
    Legend
    March 3, 2021

    Hi there,

     

    Sorry that brushes and patterns in Photoshop 22.2 are missing.

     

    Would you mind sharing the operating system version you're working with? 

     

    To start with troubleshooting, please checkout the steps mentioned in this article https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/presets-actions-plugins.html and let us know if that helps.

     

    Thanks,

    Akash

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    dougsooleyAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 10, 2021

    I am on Windows10. I tried copying from the PS2020 folders and that did not replace the brushes and patterns. I have online backups but they on;y have a three week retention. 

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    dougsooleyAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 11, 2021

    I found this video on YouTube. Which explains it very well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sXyqp_qbho


    I watched it but that does not help. Originally, I went into the old PS2020 folder and I manually copied over the old brushes and patterns files into the PS2021 version. Bottom line, I still do not have any of the multitude of brushes that I originally installed with actions that I downloaded and/or purchased over the years. Thus, if I try to run an action, it chokes on missing brushes and/or pattern files. This sucks because I have bgeen reinstalling all the files anytime I want to run an action. 😞

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