You are correct. it is designed to work with folders (or collections) of resources.

For example, I have groups of brushes in folders titled "grunge" "tech" etc.

-Rob A>

I hear you Rob, i have so many plug-ins and scripts mixed in with my folders in the actual program.
Learned my lesson, and i now only use the user/gimp 2.0/ folders lol

So much less of a headache.

They will also survive a gimp update/install that way, (Updating a version of gimp will create a new user/gimp-2.x/ folder and move all the files across fromt he previous one.)

-Rob A>

hy i have a back up of default script and brush folder at my DA page...

uff..i forgot the exact link just look on www.deviantart.com for photocomix_resources

Well I finally got the right version of Python. V 2.6, which is NOT available as an installable file from the official Python site, is available from ActiveState as ActivePython 2.6 from http://www.activestate.com/. Whereupon all the other stuff as called out in the 100% necessary and very clear tutorial on http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/inst ... ndows.html installed too. And when I re-installed GIMP (They don't tell you but you should install all the Python stuff first and THEN GIMP!), LO!...Python-Fu, mirable dictu, appeared! Then I went through all the rigmarole (contrary to popular opinion, it's not "rigAmarole") to install Brush Manager in GIMP 2.6. The Brush Manager wizard comes up just fine. The folders I put all my brushes into show up in Brush Manager. When I click on one particular folder, those brushes get copied into my "active brushes" folder. But then what is supposed to happen? The brush display in the Brushes pallet is the same horrendous mess it was before. All those blots and blivets! Should not Brush Manager be displaying only the brushes I clicked on somwhere, anywhere? Where? Any advice would be appreaciated. And I don't see how installing GURM [sp?] would help because, as nearly as I can tell, it would just use Brush Manager along with other managers.

The whole point of GURM is to either add or extract brushes from the brush directory in your user files.
You do not actually place any brushes in the user/gimp 2.6/brushes folder.Move all of them to the GURM folders you created.Then you can add or subtract them from the brushes dialog at any time.
If you want a smaller set of brushes you have to catagorize them to a dif folder in that GURM brushes folder.
For instance mine is set up like this -
C:\GIMP\all sub folders here one is called brushes, and inside that folder are all my catagorized brush folders clouds/spatter/galaxy, and so on.This way when i add brushes i add only the set i want.

So simply put create more folders in your Brushes folder and place brushes of dif type in those.Then call those with GURM.

Hope that helps a little.

Indecently make sure only default brushes are in the program directory share/brushes folder.

Just an added note - do this with your scripts also if you can.
What i did was alphabetize them.I know which letter the script i want starts with so i call it like that out of it's alphabetized folder and that brings only a few scripts in the menus.That works for me until i categorize them by what they do.My first step for that was to find them in the menus (ie add the name to the help popup in the script "something.scm" so then i can see that script in the menu - see its name and now i know exactly what it does and where to catagorize it.

I am trying to help some one set up brush manager and we have it all done except one thing and it is this line. I can't find where I change that, all I know is it has to be changed from no to yes.
[Brush Manager]
useManager = yes

Can anyone lead us to this line. thanks

Not sure about Linux, in Windows it's "gurm.ini" in your plug-in folder.

Thank odin but is is Gimp Brush manager not Gurm.

Sorry for any confusion Molly. I was referring to the GURM plug-in.