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brushes won't install, folder won't show, and everything is stuck on temporary folder
somebodykillmeplease Offline
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2 hours ago (This post was last modified: 1 hour ago by rich2005.)
   
no one say the obvious duhs of "show invisible" or uninstall and reinstall or any of the easily obvious, cuz i've done it. i have reinstalled everything i have wiped my whole, pc twice. My user files don't even show and it's a brand new piece of dookie gaming laptop that cost me my left nut. I have done all the obvious,  including extracting the files directly into both the 3.0 folder and creating a new brush folder and extracting the brushpack into that. 

Gimp IS RUNNING FINE

but the brushes have no place to go. every SINGLE time I reboot the whole damned vehicle of laptop hellscape no matter what it just keeps showing me this  "3.0" TEMPORARY FOLDER

someone save me from a stroke or I'm going to start breaking things.

tarzan roiding out. need more brains. help me.
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1 hour ago (This post was last modified: 3 minutes ago by rich2005.)
first no need for bad language, at best I will edit.

In Edit -> Preferences you need to go one step further and expand the folders entry by clicking on the > icon

   

That shows where the default folder locations are:  for Windows the path is.
C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\3.0\

You can add extra paths to additional folders if you want. Not a bad idea for a simpler location.

A brushpack ? That sounds dubious.  Gimp brushes are individual files "something.gbr"  If you have a PS brush "something.abr" it can contain more than one brush.  Gimp can use some .abr brushes, but not the most recent versions which might contain not reconised "actions"

Edit: ...quote...My user files don't even show...
If you are using Windows then the Appdata folder is a hidden folder. Some info here: https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/...on-Windows
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