Files and folders

Everything Am_sketch keeps about you lives in one folder: Documents\Am_sketch. Uninstalling leaves it alone.

Documents\Am_sketch\
├── preferences.json     every setting: shortcuts, colours, palettes, tools,
│                        screens, update choices, where your licence is
├── license\
│   └── active.lic       your imported licence
├── presets\
│   ├── custom\          brushes you made
│   ├── saved\           your saved changes to existing brushes
│   └── textures\        tips made with Import texture...
└── brushes\
    ├── tips\            your own tip images
    └── grains\          your own paper grains

The program itself is in Program Files\Am_sketch (or AppData\Local\Programs\Am_sketch if you installed it only for me), with the shipped brushes in its brushes folder.

What is not stored

• Your drawings. They live on screen until you clear them or quit; nothing is written to disk. Capture what you want to keep.
• Screenshots go wherever you save them — Pictures, by default — or to the clipboard.
• Logs. The app you bought writes none.

Backing up, moving to a new PC

Copy the whole Documents\Am_sketch folder. On the new PC, install Am_sketch, put the folder back in Documents, and start Am_sketch. If your Documents folder is in a different place on the new PC, import your licence once more with Help → Licensing → Import license... — license\active.lic is the file.

If your Documents folder syncs with OneDrive, Documents\Am_sketch — your licence copy included — syncs with it.

Starting afresh

Quit Am_sketch, then:

To reset	Delete
Every setting	preferences.json — your licence must then be imported again
One brush's saved changes	its file in presets\saved\
A brush you made	its file in presets\custom\ (or Remove brush in the app)
Everything	the whole Documents\Am_sketch folder

Start Am_sketch again and it rebuilds what is missing with its defaults. For shortcuts alone, Restore Defaults in Preferences → Shortcuts is gentler.