Hi! Recently i've installed Krita and started to play with it's brushes. I had very pleasant experience and overall impression from the software. There are plenty of brush types to chose from and i enjoyed playing with them all. But i figured out later on, that i don't want that many brushes and i want to make my own minimalistic bundle with 6-8 brushes that i will be using on a regular basis. I removed default krita 4 brush bundle and started from scratch. Everything was ok until in my brush selector started to appear some duplicates of my brushes with very long names, also those could be found in \AppData\Roaming\krita\paintoppresets there were plenty of "backup" variants, so i tried to remove them by simply deleting them from a folder and after that, when i restarted Krita i lost some of my brushes. I restored deleted backups from recycle bin and tried to remove those duplicates through Resource manager with Delete backup option, then restarted the program, yet again some of my brushes were deleted with this method. So the question is how to prevent Krita from creating unnecessary backups during tweaking and rewriting my brushes? or how to properly create my own brush bundle without braking something? I'm quite frustrated at the moment, because i'm starting to make my 4th attempt in making my custom brushes and don't want to lose them again.
i'm using Krita 4.2.8 on win 7 64.

It is not a good idea to make changes to the contents of the \AppData\Roaming\krita folder. This is your personal resources folder and it's not just a passive collection of brushes, presets, patterns etc. It has interdependent data structures with links to the items you've been deleting so if you delete anything from there it can really mess things up, as you've found out.

When you 'removed' the default krita 4 bundle you will also have 'removed' any brush tips that it contains and so any brush presets that you made which refer to and rely on those brush tips will no longer work.

To deal with your current situation, my personal opinion is that you should delete the entire krita resources folder and then run krita to recreate it from scratch and then start again.

If you want to see and use only a small collection of some particular brush presets, you can use the tagging facility to put your own personal tag on them and then limit the display in the Brush presets docker to brushes that have that tag. Also, in the popup palette, you can have it show brushes with a particular tag. You can have many different tags and a brush can have more than one tag.

The manual will give you details about this and many other things: https://docs.krita.org/en/

ahabgreybeard wrote:It is not a good idea to make changes to the contents of the \AppData\Roaming\krita folder. This is your personal resources folder and it's not just a passive collection of brushes, presets, patterns etc. It has interdependent data structures with links to the items you've been deleting so if you delete anything from there it can really mess things up, as you've found out.

When you 'removed' the default krita 4 bundle you will also have 'removed' any brush tips that it contains and so any brush presets that you made which refer to and rely on those brush tips will no longer work.

To deal with your current situation, my personal opinion is that you should delete the entire krita resources folder and then run krita to recreate it from scratch and then start again.

If you want to see and use only a small collection of some particular brush presets, you can use the tagging facility to put your own personal tag on them and then limit the display in the Brush presets docker to brushes that have that tag. Also, in the popup palette, you can have it show brushes with a particular tag. You can have many different tags and a brush can have more than one tag.

The manual will give you details about this and many other things: https://docs.krita.org/en/

I tried to use tagging system but also encountered a problem when for example brushes were loosing their tags, or for some reason 7-8 "textures" categories appeared in a list when i added new brushes to my tag, it was very annoying and inconvenient to me.

The tagging system does have problems and these (among other things) are being dealt with by a rewrite of the entire resources facilities. I believe this will be released as part of version 4.3.0 but that version 4.2.9 will be released soon before that.

I have a suggestion for you: Rename your resources folder to 'krita-old-date' and restart krita. This will create a new/fresh resources folder, You will lose any brush presets you had made and any tags you had created. Start again making new brush presets and tags but do not delete anything by going into the resources folder. If you want to delete a brush preset, use the Presets list in the Brush Editor (left pointing arrow at the top left of the window) and use the delete symbol at the bottom of the list after selecting the preset.

If you get good results doing that, try bringing one of your old brush presets from krita-old-date/paintoppresests into your new krita/paintoppresets folder (make sure it does not have the same name as any other file there) and restart krita. This may work to help you recover your previous work.

ahabgreybeard wrote:The tagging system does have problems and these (among other things) are being dealt with by a rewrite of the entire resources facilities. I believe this will be released as part of version 4.3.0 but that version 4.2.9 will be released soon before that.

I have a suggestion for you: Rename your resources folder to 'krita-old-date' and restart krita. This will create a new/fresh resources folder, You will lose any brush presets you had made and any tags you had created. Start again making new brush presets and tags but do not delete anything by going into the resources folder. If you want to delete a brush preset, use the Presets list in the Brush Editor (left pointing arrow at the top left of the window) and use the delete symbol at the bottom of the list after selecting the preset.

If you get good results doing that, try bringing one of your old brush presets from krita-old-date/paintoppresests into your new krita/paintoppresets folder (make sure it does not have the same name as any other file there) and restart krita. This may work to help you recover your previous work.

Yep, i did somewhat similar by archiving Krita resource folder for recovery just in case if something will go wrong. And i also tried deleting duplicates of the brushes in a presets window, but for some reason it's not always working and unwanted brush still remains. Anyway thanks for your replies i'll wait maybe next releases will remove some of those issues.