GIMP Version: 2.10.22
Operating System: Windows
OS Version: 64 bit Home
GIMP Experience: New User

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Have run into this problem before when I tried to categorise brushes. This time I didn't do it, They came categorised with the newest version I have. I clicked on one today because I noticed I am missing a few from my collection.
I clicked on one and cannot get back to what I had or even change it to another category.

got it back to how it was - deleted that tab and added another brush tab. Still got to find out where all my other brushes went.

In the first post, you have loads of tags in the filter field so the dialog is showing you only brushes that have all those tags which is just the Pepper. I'm surprised any brush has that many tags.

To display all the brushes again I'd treble click in the filter field (1) to highlight all and then hit the delete key.

Another way is to click on the down arrow (2) and then click on each of the selected tags one at a time to turn it off.

This just affects what brushes are displayed in the brush dialog. The brushes will still have all the same tags as before.

The enter tags field usually shows what tags the current brush has but the (None) looks like you haven't got a brush selected so I don't know why so many there, did you enter them?

No I didn't enter them teapot which is why I assumed they must have come categorised with gimp. Thanks for the reply. Showed up on me again today so I just deleted that brush tab. If it shows again tomorrow I will follow through with what you said.

The tag settings are help in the file C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\tags.xml Delete that and Gimp reverts to defaults. It will write a new file when required. Delete, restart Gimp.

The tags that you see, Basic - Fun - Media etc come from the folder name containing the brush. That also applies to your own brushes, if you put them into folders.

OK, I see now that I misunderstood what the (None) near the top of the dialog means.


Thanks for the information Rich. I already organise brushes, gradients etc. into appropriate folders/directories so the tags come from them due to learning from helpful posts you have made before that are much appreciated.

Unfortunately that doesn't work for fonts (at least on the version of gimp I'm running) so I enter those tags by hand but not via the GUI interface, I edit the tags file and keep my own version to revert to so as not to loose my edits. It's not a method I'd recommend though.

Thank you Wallace, will check it out later