blackxacto

I use Find all Files, and Spotlight

RCR, I'm glad you brought this up. Would you kindly help someone else?

Drag it out, then drop it in the folder where it belongs. There is only one folder where it belongs, right? Or maybe you have a second folder?

TMMovie 2.mov

I can find no email proof of purchasing Affinity Photo 1, but the Apple App Store says I bought it 04/15/2018. I have no idea why our path spellings are different. V1 is installed on my iMac now w V2. The path is for brushes in V1 back to 10/13/2022. The file is 148.4MB. I've not altered the Container folders. Only option dragged the brushes file.

I chose this backup path for demo, or any backup date, tell me if I am wrong? What I cannot tell you is why the complete Affinity brush library, including full third party brushes is not in any backups in TM all the way back to 2022. Photoshop backups are always there as individual brushes. "So as far as I'm able to understand it, Serif had done everything it can to make to make both backing up the per user stuff & transitioning from V1 to V2 as easy as possible. I don't know why isn't working for you." You must be lucky.

If they were separate I could go to a few weeks ago and drag and drop them into V2. As it is, there is no V1 version with all the brushes. I dont have the .propcal file from the week before i Trashed V1, but I do have from 2 weeks before to 2022. None of these show the entire collection. I cant believe the entire collection was not backed up until the last one that was trashed. I’m telling you i have one at a time replaced all the .propcal brush files one at a time. NONE ARE COMPLETE. NONE are larger than 148.4 MB. If i had individual brush files, TM will copy them all. That did not happen w propcal.

Sigh.

RCR: I have found (raster_brushes.propcol) for each TM backup going back to 2022. However, none of them are larger than 148.4MB. I do not know what happened to the last/recent version w the entire collection, it had to be larger that 148.4MB unless this file never gets larger. Does anyone know for sure? Anyway, one contains 5 brush groups 25,30,35,36,40. There is a second (raster_brushes.propcol) with 3 groups 87,88,89. Photo2 only uses ONE brush file. How would I combine both raster_brushes files? SERIF ATTENTION: do you see how complex you have made restoring my brush collection. Why can't they be listed as separate objects in a Preset Brush folder?

I am grateful i know where the brush file is now. Still working on what happened. I must have installed V2. Then trashed V1. But i was never asked to migrate. Still searching backups.

Is Serif just not interested in making AP user friendly? What complexity is introduced by easing the recovery of user added data, like brushes. They obviously want us to use outside data like brushes, styles, etc.

If I have to lose anything I prefer the recent additional brushes I added. But if there were a way to merge all the brush files. But, I still don't know what file holds the brush collection. I thought someone told me, but I haven't found where in this thread.

No the large collection does not show in Photo 1. Whoosh, all gone.

Walt, I’m sorry I left out the info. 19,1 iMac/Sonoma 14.3.1/Affinity Photo 2.3.1 I have the default brushes and some I had collected recently, but not my full older collection. i have back ups from 2 years back, why cant i get them

Ive spent a lot of time adding my own brush collection. After upgrading Photo2 where are they? What file do I search for in backups for all my brushes?