I have millions of brushes... how do I get them onto my brand new Mac (Designer 2)?

[Annenigma]

Hi there, I've tried searching for a recent thread addressing this issue - forgive me if it has been covered and I've missed it.

I have used Affinity suite for ages and built up quite the collection of brushes. I now have a shiny new mac... but I don't know how to get my brushes across - except by tediously taking each category, one-by-one, and exporting it to the cloud. PLEASE tell me that there is a better way to do this? I really don't have time...

Is there a folder in the bowels of my computer that I can copy across?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks a tonne!

Heather

[v_kyr]

See:

... etc.

... do a Forum or Google search about that topic!

[walt.farrell]

Doesn't macOS have facilities for migrating data from one Mac to another? If so, that's probably the easiest way to handle it.

[Annenigma]

6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Doesn't macOS have facilities for migrating data from one Mac to another? If so, that's probably the easiest way to handle it.

It does, but I chose not to use it because this Mac is a fresh start, so everything is loaded from scratch. I didn't even think to try migrate one thing at a time.... I'll look if I don't come right with the system file route.

Thanks a stack!

:)

[jmwellborn]

5 hours ago, Annenigma said:

It does, but I chose not to use it because this Mac is a fresh start, so everything is loaded from scratch. I didn't even think to try migrate one thing at a time.... I'll look if I don't come right with the system file route.

Thanks a stack!

If you have Designer V2, and if you have a backup file of all of your brushes, you can at least import several categories at a time, rather than one by one.  You could try a few categories on the first attempt, and if that works well, add a larger group the next time.  If you select a group large enough to invoke the spinning beachball, you will have to wait until it stops, but that group will be imported too.  I have attached a portion of Photo2 Help, for you to see.  It is the same thing for Designer2 Help.  Although Styles are not checked, I know that you can definitely import several Styles categories at the same time because I have done it.  They do take a long time, though, because Styles files are often quite a bit larger than Brush files.   I hope this helps!

[firstdefence]

Aren't brushes stored in a propcol files: 

Is this FAQ still current?

[walt.farrell]

33 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Aren't brushes stored in a propcol files: 

Yes, unless they've been exported. If exported, they're in .afbrushes files, and you can import multiple such files at once using the new functions in V2.

34 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Is this FAQ still current?

The file locations have changed on Windows. I don't know about Mac.

Other info is still current, I think.

[carl123]

There's a new File > Import Content in V2 that appears to allow multiple different types of content to be imported all at once but have not had time to test it properly as yet

Maybe useful in some circumstances not necessarily the OP's

 

[Annenigma]

Hi all, thanks so much for the help. So I found the V2->User folder with the .propcol files in it... zipped the whole User folder on my old Mac and pasted it in over the folder on the new Mac (changed the existing one to UserBckp first - just in case). Reopened Designer aaaand hey presto! Everything is there... I'm so chuffed. I really didn't expect it to be so easy in real life.

 

Thanks Again.

:)