Photoshop Brushes Disappear

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August 12, 2019
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I am on Photoshop CC 20.13-6, Twice in the past 6 weeks I have opened Photoshop to find that all of my custom and imported brushes have disappeared.

I was able to to get them all back except the ones I created myself by copying and pasting brushes.psp from Photoshop cc 2018 and pasting it in 2019.

But I have to recreate the ones I made myself.

Why is this happening?! how do I stop it from happening?

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c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

You need to save your custom brushes as abr-files and ideally also back them up.

The abr-files in the proper Brushes Folder (in the user acount Preferences) will be available in the Brushes Panel’s pop-up menu, so even if they don’t appear at opening Photoshop they can be restored easily.

But aside from such basic workflow issues the issue seems fairly common these days:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/my-imported-brushes-disappear-after-closing-photoshop

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/photoshop-cc-2019-brush-panel-keeps-resetting

Sahil.Chawla

Adobe Employee

Hi Pam,

Sorry to hear about the brushes disappearing, let's make it right.

Could you please have a look at this article and let us know if it helps: Migrate presets, actions, and settings

Regards,
Sahil

jmn79501261

Participant

Same problem, my brush regulary dissapear... Seems when you have more than 2gb brush.. When quitting Photoshop delete all brush.. Don't know what to do

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