After my last laptop almost died, I had to buy a new one. All of my krita files and the program itself is on a spare hard drive and I did move it all to my new gaming laptop. Unfortunately it seems like it’s not registering any of my gradients, patterns, palettes and brushes I made, nor is any of the brushes I’ve downloaded from other people. I cannot for the life of me remember how to move all of that the first time I had to change laptops. Now I will say that I had the second most recent update on my old laptop and when I re-download krita onto my new laptop I saw that there was a new update. If you need more information I will gladly provide it.
Hello @Grimaussiewitch and welcome back to the forum!
Okay, now we know that you cannot get your old resources imported, but unfortunately, despite the many words that make your plight almost tangible, you have not provided a piece of information that is necessary to help you in a targeted manner.
I therefore assume that you are using Windows, and to reimport your resources on a Windows system you have to enter %APPDATA%\krita\ in the address bar of the explorer and confirm with the Enter-Key, this will take you directly to Krita’s resource folder. You can also access this folder from within Krita via ‘‘Settings’’ >> ‘‘Manage Resources…’’ >> ‘‘Open Resource Folder’’.
There in the resource folder you add:
your gradients into the folder “gradients”,
your brush presets in the folder “paintoppresets”,
the brush tips in the “brushes” folder,
the patterns go into the “patterns” folder,
and the palettes in “palettes”.
Bundles are now stored by Krita directly in the resource folder and no longer in its subfolder “bundles”, but Krita would recognize such a folder and the bundles in it and load them. You are therefore free to either create a “bundles” folder and store the bundles there, or simply copy the bundles into the resources folder.
If this does not help you, then tell us in the next answer:
- your operating system (Windows, Linux, macOS),
- the version of Krita that you have just installed,
- where you got this version from.
Michelist
I did not read, that this user tried to export the gradients…
Have you tried exporting? @Grimaussiewitch or is that not possible?
Krita-> manage resources-> create bundle
Thanks for your comment! I see it differently, but after re-reading @Grimaussiewitch’s post it gives me a, purely speculative, idea:
Even if you can’t say for sure due to the lack of information (mainly OS, but not only) as to what actions were actually taken, it sounds to me like @Grimaussiewitch tried to start the Krita copied over from the old PC to the new one, hoping it would recognize and use the old directories.
But then the questions are:
- where was the old content copied to
- was the identical username created for the new PC that was also used for the previous PC?
My suggestion works on Windows to the extent that if the old resources are copied from their backup disk to the directories I specified, then it does not matter where this data was previously copied to.
Michelist
Yes I’m using windows for both laptops and after looking into the appdata I discovered that it didn’t download into there. Where I found the files it was in my one drive personal as my computer synced up. Like I said I’m not use to moving things to a new computer.
This is such a noob mistake from me XP
Yep that was the problem… I tested with palettes first and it worked! I’m not a tech wiz but thank you for this simple method.
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