Batch Importing of Brushes and Swatches etc?

[Sukavi]

I had to update to a new mac. How to simply drag and drop my old assets like brushes and pallets to my new install of Affinity apps?
I only see a way to import them through the app and its brush, by brush. I dont see anyway to do a bulk import or export etc.

Is the only way exporting one by one of brush sets and pallets etc?

[walt.farrell]

• If you are talking about reinstalling, for example, multiple .afbrushes files or multiple .abr files or multiple .afassets files then you can use File > Import Content and select them in the Finder dialog that you get when you use that option. (This assumes you're using V2 of the Affinity applications.)
• If you are talking about the brushes, assets, etc. that were installed in the old copy of your Affinity application on your old Mac, then the easiest way is probably to use the software/data migration functions provided by macOS exactly for that purpose. It can copy your applications, and their data, from the old Mac to the new one.
  
  If you didn't use that, then if you have a backup of your old Mac's data (or access to the old Mac via the network) you could copy the old Affinity data files to the new Mac. Assuming you're talking about V2 of the Affinity applications, this FAQ will tell you where most of those data files are located:

[Sukavi]

37 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

• If you are talking about reinstalling, for example, multiple .afbrushes files or multiple .abr files or multiple .afassets files then you can use File > Import Content and select them in the Finder dialog that you get when you use that option. (This assumes you're using V2 of the Affinity applications.)
• If you are talking about the brushes, assets, etc. that were installed in the old copy of your Affinity application on your old Mac, then the easiest way is probably to use the software/data migration functions provided by macOS exactly for that purpose. It can copy your applications, and their data, from the old Mac to the new one.
  
  If you didn't use that, then if you have a backup of your old Mac's data (or access to the old Mac via the network) you could copy the old Affinity data files to the new Mac. Assuming you're talking about V2 of the Affinity applications, this FAQ will tell you where most of those data files are located:

thank you Walt. I dont understand though because the page you link shows prefs. I dont see any mention of brushes and color pallets etc. i do have access to a back up.  i cant use migration though, there is some space issue etc. little frustrated that this cant be more straight forward process.

[walt.farrell]

55 minutes ago, Sukavi said:

I dont understand though because the page you link shows prefs. I dont see any mention of brushes and color pallets etc.

That page refers to "resources and preference files" which covers all the changes you have made to the application, and everything you have installed into it.

If you cannot use migration, then this is the only method you can use unless you want to use the approach of manually exporting each brush category, each asset category, etc. on the old machine and then reimporting them on the new machine. And that export-based approach won't get everything. Only the full internal file transfer, using that article to locate the internal files, will get everything.

There is a tutorial that shows this, too, but I'll have to look for it later, unless someone else provides a pointer to it first.

[Sukavi]

Transferring those files worked. Thank you!

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.