Setting up your addoncollection manager is quite simple now since the original Python plug-in has been modified
I will start with the brush manager for this tutorial.

You will need the plug-in that is foundHERE

If you are using Linux, make sure you check execute in the permissions allowing executing file as a program.

original doc. http://gimp-tools.sourceforge.net/managementtools.shtml

Place this addonCollectionManager-3.0.py into your user Plug-ins folder.

Open your .gimp-2.8 folder, right click inside the folder and click Create folder and name it brushes_storage.

What you need to do now is make several folders inside this storage folder. Here is an example of some of mine. Remember to capitalize the folders.

Click the brush sets and another window will open and all your brushes will be in view that you put in the alternate folder, Click beside the brushes you want to open and brush manager will open those and click ok

Please, any questions, post here or pm me.

Great tut, Molly. I actually renamed the Original folders and made new Default folders. I saved time not having to copy/paste. The internal folders were a nightmare but I have got some good ideas from looking at yours.

Thank you kimba, I also used it for my fonts, but there is just too many of them to sort and name.

Thank you Molly for your tutorial. I'm sure your useful tut will help many members here.

you are welcome issabella

Thankyou Molly, that's the clearest explanation I've found so far. One thing I'm unsure about, you posted - "TIP... The reason you will be emptying your brushs folder is so that just the brushes you have selected will go there. If you untick those brushes in your brush manager, they will go back to your brush manager and that brush folder will be empty again. So, the only brushes you will see in your brushes folder are the ones you have selected and the default brushes"
Question; As I'm emptying my C/User/Me/GIMP2.8 brushes folder completely, does the AddOnManager somehow automatically detect the GIMP default brushes after I've put my made brushes folders in AOM, or do I have to make a folder for them as well?

default brushes are in Program Files/....., not in User folder, and it's Gimp which detects them not the AddonCollectionManager

Please be patient - one (hopefully) last question. Where, exactly, am i creating the storage folder within my GIMP directory?

if you do not need to use those folders for more than one user, place them under:
C:\Users\yourname\.gimp-2.8

brushes_storage goes in [USER]/.gimp-2.8/
In the example below I have 'Wilber-obc.gbr' selected in the addon manager.
Using Linux paths.

Just to add to Odinbc,

The folder structure is



Just make sure the brushes/fonts/scripts/patterns....in each something_storage
are in sub-folders or zipped.
edit: Still not so clear. You can of course have more than one sub-folder or zip file or combination of each

I've learned so much from installing AOCManager, I now have a basic grasp of filing (used to baffle me) and I'm obsessed with inventory. A huge thank you to all who have guided me through this.

I have the addonCollection Manager but which folder do I go to for the brushes? It is both folders? I'm on Windows 10 64 bit.

Program Files/GIMP 2/share/... folders should be reserved to Gimp itself.
The user deals with User/... folders.
Having addonsCollectionManager the user adds new folders under .../brushes_storage, then manages her/his collection using aCM to "activate" (or "deactivate") them, which means aCM will copy (remove) into (from) ...brushes.

Oh, okay. The reason I asked is because sometimes the User folder doesn't read the brushes and the share folder does.. that's where I have folders of brushes.

All your 3rd party brushes, gradients plugins, scripts, etc... should go in your users GIMP 2.10 folder. Looking at the image you provided, you should move your addons to the User folder. Don't mess around with the Program folder "GIMP 2" and don't add anything there. This is how you User GIMP 2.10 should look:

When you create the folder for the addOnCollectionManager plugin, you folders should look like this . You Have to create an individual "_storage" folder for this items:
1. brush_storage,
2. dynamics_storage,
3. fonts_storage,
4. gradients_storage,
5. patterns_storage
6. scripts_storage.




Then create sub-folder and re-name them according to the set of the items. For this purpose I chose the brushes_storage.



Start GIMP and right click inside the dialog your going to use. For this purpose I selected "brushes sets". Right click on the brushes dialog and the "addOnCollectinManager" will pop up. Check on any brushes sets to add, or unchecked to remove.



The only addon that is not on the dialog is the scripts. You have to go to, "Help" and select "scripts sets". That is all.

I found an easier way to add brushes to the storage folder.. it works for any folder really. I suggest brushes you collect, go into folders, then copy those folders and then paste them into the _storage folders.