Affinity Photo V2 - crashed when duplicating a brush for editing, no brushes are available now across all 3 programs

[DaveCSmithson]

Hi, I'm running on iMac (Monterey (12.4), all Affinity apps are the latest versions

I tried to duplicate a brush in Affinity Photo v2 to edit it when the system completely froze, left it for 30 mins and the beachball was still spinning, so had to force quit photo.

As a result after the restart no brushes were available (both the defaults and purchased brushes) in either Photo or the pixel persona in Designer. I looked on the forum and a couple of people running windows had experienced the same problem (not resolved), so followed the recommended steps ie. uninstalling and re-installing etc.

After the re-installation I still have the same problem, no brushes available in Photo or pixel designer (vector brushes still available). In designer the brushes have a lock item against each collection (see screenshot) but in Photo they are all missing.

One thing I did check as recommended, the file 'raster_brushes.propcol' file is huge (3.13Gb) I have brushes totalling around 700mb I have purchased, so I don't know how large the default Affinity set.

Thanks for any help, as you can see I am just limited to vector work at the moment!

Dave Cockerham

[Dan C]

Hi DaveCSmithson,

After backing up your brushes, could you please hold control whilst launching and reset brushes on the page that pops open.

Lee