![]() Again, I changed the name to the name I want to use for the library. To do that, I opened the brush library folder and selected the contents of the folder and zipped it. If you do have more than the three default libraries, you do want to import each library into Painter. You do not want to import these libraries again. It is possible, if you have never created a Painter brush library, these three libraries will be all that you have. Don’t let the name Painter 14 brushes confuse you that is the name of the Painter 2015 brush library. Three of them are the default brush libraries that came with Painter, Painter Brushes, Painter 13 brushes, and Painter 14 brushes. Each one of these folders represent a Painter brush library. I opened that folder and found another series of folders. In my saved workspace folder, there are a series of folders and some files. I can import my custom files individually from my saved workspace to Painter. The following video shows you how to prepare your workspace for import:Īll is still not lost. My experience is about 50/50 meaning that about 50% of the time this will work, but 50% of the time my workspace still crashes Painter. If my workspace isn’t corrupted, it will open in Painter. I opened Painter and went to Window > Workspace > Import Workspace > and navigated to my zipped file, selected it, and hit open. I ignore the warning and proceed with the changes. Changing the extension prompts the OS to give me a warning that changing the extension can corrupt the file. Then I change the name to the name I want to use for my workspace, and this is very important, I changed the extension. I do this by selecting the contents of the saved workspace folder and zipping them. Once Painter is operating again, I want to import my saved workspace into Painter, but I have to prepare it for import. The same is true if you uninstall and re-install Painter. That is why it is important to copy your workspace files before a Shift – Start. At this point, Painter deletes all custom files. At this point, release your shift key and select all workspaces and hit the enter key. A window will open that asks if you want to set Painter back to factory defaults. Hold down the shift key and start Painter normally, but don’t let up on the shift key. It is a very neat way to open painter with a corrupted workspace or something that blocks Painter from opening. Now that I saved the workspace, I can open Painter using a Shift – Start or uninstalling and re-installing. Watch the following video about saving your workspace. Once you get to your workspace, copy the information and paste it to a new folder in your documents or somewhere you can find it again. Now in the finder select Application Support > Corel > Painter 2015 > Your Workspace name…or default if you haven’t made a workspace. If you are on a Mac, then go to your Finder Menu and select Go > Go To Folder and in the box that opens type: ~/Library and hit Go. ![]() In a PC, go to Desktop > User System Folder (usually your name) > AppData > Roaming > Corel > Painter 2015 (or X3, or 12.2) > Your Workspace name…or default if you haven’t made a workspace. Hopefully, one of the above steps will allow you to open Painter again, but if it doesn’t, then follow what I did.įor a PC first copy and save your workspace information to your documents. If that doesn’t work, then try uninstalling Painter, but when you start the process you will get the option to either repair or remove Painter. If that doesn’t work, then try rebooting your computer and then open Painter. ![]() The first thing to do after a crash is to try to open Painter again. Follow along as I show you how I recovered my custom files. But, I know that some of my readers have experienced this same horror. To start Painter I had to either use a Shift-Start or uninstall and re-install, which meant I would lose all of my custom brushes, papers, flow maps, etc. OK, Painter crashed and no matter what I did, I could not open it again. It will make it easier to find for reference. I made this post Jand thought it deserved a page of its own.
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