Krita 5.2.6 Released!

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Krita 5.2.3 is definitely a x64 program, because the last x32 version of Krita was before Krita 4.4.8, at least after that version all versions of Krita for Linux, macOS and Windows are x64-versions.
So if your 5.2.3 was installed in a path different from c:\Program Files\Krita (x64)\, it would be at least interesting, but since you can choose the path, where Krita will be installed, yourself, it is not impossible that you installed it in a different location.
Or did you previously use the installation via Steam, Microsoft Store or Epic Store? Because at least Steam will install Krita in c:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Krita\, where Epic Store and Microsoft Store will install Krita is unknown to me.

The next thing is that you can directly overwrite your Krita 5.2.3 with the most recent version. That is because Krita stores most of its user-settings in %LOCALAPPDATA% but none in your installation folder, additionally a few settings are found in Krita’s resource folder.
So an update only updates the software, but not any user data.

And while we are at the user-data, it is always a good idea to have backup copies of your settings files and your resource folder. Because, even if this happens very, very seldom, it can happen that your settings get corrupted, and it is far quicker and easier to restore them from a backup than from scratch.

So, open your %LOCALAPPDATA%-folder (put %LOCALAPPDATA% into your Explorer’s address bar and hit Enter) and make a backup from at least your kritarc and from your kritadisplayrc, but it would be better to back up all files at the very end of the %LOCALAPPDATA%-folder having something “krita” in their name, but these files are not found in any sub-folder of %LOCALAPPDATA% nor in the folder “krita” you can find in %LOCALAPPDATA% nor should you back up that folder named “krita”, you only need the files at the very end of %LOCALAPPDATA%.
Your resource folder can be found via the menu ‘‘Settings’’ → ‘‘Manage Resources…’’ where you have to click on the button Open Resource Folder or via entering %APPDATA%\krita\ into your Explorer’s address-bar and hitting Enter which will also take you there.

Michelist

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My original Krita install was to c:\Program Files\Krita. I used the windows …setup.exe.

Don’t remember removing the (x64) when I did the install, but I guess I must have. Since I can overwrite the files, I will do the same with the new version.

Backups are a way of life, even better when placed on a different machine.

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Please update Krita Snap version:

Unable to use Krita 5.2.2 snap version

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:slight_smile: Hello @taijuin and welcome to the forum!

The Snap-Version is not an official version of Krita, although it is offered via Krita’s homepage it is and stays the project of an independent maintainer (maybe it is a group now?), at least as far as I know.
The only thing you can do is wait for the update of the unofficial Snap package, or use the only official version of Krita for Linux - and that is and remains the AppImage. All other offers on Linux are unofficial.

Michelist

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hi, is it possible if in the next update, to fix the missing quicklooks extension for MacOS Sequoia? I bought a new computer and I realized I couldn’t preview any of my 120+ .kra files. They’re all blank, so it takes like 30 mins every time to pull up the right files…

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all the krita versions are. The krita plugin is missing when I do qlmanage -m,
sorry.

;~;

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As a workaround, you can use a Krita plugin like BuliCommander (an orthodox file manager for Krita, that I prefer by far), or ImagineBoard, both will allow you to see and select your Krita files from within Krita.
For both plugins, it is true that you have to start Krita first and then can browse and select your files.

If you go for BuliCommander, then you need to patch the plugin according to the instructions given here, or you download the version patched by me from here for the time being, since its author currently has to work his way through mountains of diapers and such things, and that will take time:

And here one example how you could set up BuliCommander (the forum-link above will show much more and presents its capabilities):

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For file management with Krita, BuliCommander is the best tool known to me, ImagineBoard has other use cases where it is predestined for.

Michelist