blackxacto

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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?

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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?

19.1 iMac, Monterey 12.4, Affinity Photo 1.10.5: Having changed a documents rulers to inches, when I go to choose a new document dimension, why do I still see MM dimensions? I have no use for MM dimensions.

I haven't used designer as yet. Just bought it to have on hand should I do any page layouts again. I used QuarkXpress for years before retirement.

Walt & RCR, thanks for responding. If others have success just replacing the raster_brushes.propcol, then must be something else. I only targeted the Affinity Photo folder in libraries. Time Machine is set to ignore only my external disks. Maybe I’ll figure out what I did. Thanks again for responding.

Then why don’t all the per user brush presets backup in Time Machine. If they did, I’d simply replace the same file from two days before. But AP ignores previous preset states from backups.

I didn't keep a backup of the originals. I thought Affinity Photo would backed up. I do three complete iMac backups each night. But Affinity Photo does not backup itself, or there is a file no one is talking about w the backup of the Saturday Affinity Photo brushes. It isn't in raster_brushes.propcol. Its not in any backups through the last month. If Affinity Photo keeps all my brushes in a file: raster_brushes.propcol, then it isn't backing up correctly. Or, there has to be another file that backup brushes.

I did exactly as you suggested, ~/Library/Containers/Affinity Photo/Data/Library/Application Support/user/. Restored from two days before Saturday (day I deleted the 3 brushes) No three brush backup of the three last week. I went to March 18 this year. I did EXACTLY as you say. There were no three brushes from the 3-18 restoration. There has to be ANOTHER FILE that holds brush info that will restore my 3 brushes I deleted on Saturday.

Got Affinity Photo from the Apple App Store 19,1 iMac, Monterey 12.3, 64gb RAM "I QUIT AP. Looked for the file in my user account: ~/user/Library Containers/Affinity Photo/Data/Library/Application Support/user/raster_brushes.propcol. TRASHED IT. Then replaced it with the Time Machine backup file from two days earlier (raster_brushes.propcol). But when I REOPENED AP, the deleted brushes were not there." This told me that that raster_brushes.propcol(from two days ago) did not have the 3 deleted brushes before Saturdays deletion. So my question is still, what file can I restore from a Time Machine backup that would give me the 3 deleted third party brushes?

Chased down where all these brush propcol files reside w one user on iMac. Trashed the backup file I made. There is only one left for AP. Here's what happened Saturday: Opened AP, accidentally deleted 3 (3rd party) brushes. I asked in the AP forum where was the AP brush file stored. I retrieved it from Time Machine backup from couple days previous (raster_brushes.propcol). I quit AP. Looked for the file in my user account. Trashed it. Then replaced with the TM backup file (raster_brushes.propcol). But when I opened AP, the deleted brushes were not there. That's why I asked the forum where is the file that keeps record of the brushes. Still do know what file keeps records of brushes. dd.pdf

Why are brush files hidden in the Affinity Photo Application/Contents/Resources. Am I suppose to reveal these hidden files?

Oh, forgot, I am the only user.