Windows
Where Does Substance Painter Store Shelf and Autosaves?
Substance Painter shelf, autosaves and plugins in Documents under Adobe.
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Substance Painter keeps shelf assets, autosaves and plugins in an Adobe folder inside Documents. Projects themselves live wherever saved.
Autosaves rescue crashed sessions. The shelf folder is the valuable half for custom materials and brushes.
Where Substance 3D Painter stores this, by platform
Windows
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Adobe\Adobe Substance 3D Painter
Holds shelf, autosaves and plugins. Exact subfolder naming can vary between Painter versions; copy the whole tree with the app closed.
Frequently asked questions
How do I move Substance Painter data?
Copy the shelf, autosaves and plugins folders with Painter closed. Exported textures live wherever you saved them and need separate copying.
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