Brush categories disappeared

[Gingamegs]

I had duplicated a brush and was in the middle of adjusting the size of the brush using the slider in the brush editor when Affinity Photo crashed and I had to force quit. When I restarted the app, all my custom brush categories had disappeared, including ones I have purchased from designers and installed from the add-ons screen - basically everything except the default brush categories. I have been using some of these brush categories for a least 12 months with no issue, though some are newer.

I'm running Affinity Photo 1.10.5 on OSX Monteray 12.6. I use a Wacom Cintiq 2019.

[stokerg]

Hi @Gingamegsand Welcome to the Forums,

Can you upload your brushes file to our Dropbox here:
https://www.dropbox.com/request/s7l5NsEIBlJ542wwuXwh

To find the brushes file, if you purchased Affinity from the Affinity Store, using Finder>Go To Folder, go to this location:
~/Library/Application Support/Affinity Photo/user/

If you purchased from the Mac App Store, go here:
~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinityphoto/Data/Library/Application Support/user/

In there you should see a raster_brushes.propcol file.  There may also be a raster_brushes.propcol_backup file as well.  If you can upload them both, i'll see if any of them can be recovered.

[Gingamegs]

Hi there

Thanks for your response. I'm uploading the raster_brushes.protocol files to dropbox. I have reinstalled the brush categories I lost, so not sure if recovery is necessary (??). I haven't experienced Affinity crashing again yet.