Where are my color swatches?

[Axhill]

After a clean install of macOS Monterey, I restored everything manually, not via TimeMachine.
Now I have lost my old colour swatches on my Affinity applications. They are of course still in some file in the old library on the TM.

Does anyone know the right path for this?

[walt.farrell]

They should be in the fills.propcol file, @Axhill.

The "Reset Fills" section in this FAQ mentions that, and the initial sections of the FAQ tell you where to find the files, depending on where you purchased your Affinity application and what version of macOS you run:

 

[thomaso]

 

[Axhill]

Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately it seems that I have overwritten the old file. 

It's a pity. I have to make new color swatches.

 

[walt.farrell]

9 minutes ago, Axhill said:

Unfortunately it seems that I have overwritten the old file. 

If you did not have a backup of those directories from before the reinstall, or a backup of the individual swatches (palettes) via .afpalette files, yes, you probably have overwritten them.

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, Axhill said:

They are of course still in some file in the old library on the TM.

19 minutes ago, Axhill said:

Unfortunately it seems that I have overwritten the old file. 

Hm? You have overwritten your TM backup which you created with the literally goal to be used to possibly restore files – before restoring them?

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, Axhill said:

Unfortunately it seems that I have overwritten the old file. 

As @thomaso asked, do you really mean you have deleted or overwritten your older Time Machine backups that included these files?

IOW, if you enter Time Machine, can you not move the timeline back to some date before you did the clean install of the OS & find the files in one of those backups?

[Old Bruce]

People, the Original Post says in the first line that there is no Time Machine involved in the clean install.

[thomaso]

2 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

there is no Time Machine involved in the clean install.

That is fine. It means, the Migration Assist was not used to restore the entire user folder. The OP continues:

8 hours ago, Axhill said:

my old colour swatches on my Affinity applications. They are of course still in some file in the old library on the TM.

This is fine too. This TM backup can be used to restore the specific data.

[R C-R]

48 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

People, the Original Post says in the first line that there is no Time Machine involved in the clean install.

That has nothing to do with the existence of any Time Machine backups, unless for some reason they were on the same drive that got the clean install, maybe in a second partition that was wiped out depending on how the "clean" install was done.

Generally speaking, Time Machine backups are not worth doing unless they can be saved to a completely different drive than the one the OS, apps, & user accounts use.

[R C-R]

18 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:

Perhaps @Axhill could make make a request in the feedback forum: add a button/menu option to the Affinity products to export all user assets such as swatches.

I am reasonably sure this has already been requested, I think more than once.