GIMP brushes fail

I downloaded a few extra brushes so I can make a sig, but now I can't use any of my brushes anymore. when I click on the box where you're supposed to be able to change your brush, I just get white. now I can't use my pencil, paintbrush, eraser, or airbrush, and that's just off the top of my head. can someone please help?

 

That's....strange.

How did you save the new brushes? I'd be glad to help.

If you did it and deleted the entire brushes folder instead pf the newly downloaded compressed (after copying the files into the regular brushes folder) you might have lost all of your brushes.​

 

I didn't delete them, I know that because I can still open the file that has all the brushes in it (I'm using a Mac). I saved the first one and got it to work, but all the default brushes disappeared. Then I installed the rest and now they're all gone. They started as .abr brushes, but I saw they didn't work, so I changed them to .gbr, and that still isn't working. I think GIMP doesn't know where the brushes are. Actually, I think I may have just solved my own problem. I'll be right back.

EDIT: Yeah, I just fixed it. thanks anyway!

EDIT 2: Nevermind, I only have the default brushes. All my custom ones are gone. also, when I click on something, like the brush select button, it hides behind the window.

 

Okay. ABR is not the right file type. You want to make sure you're downloadin' GIMP brushes, not Photobucket (ABR).​

 

do you know where I can get GBR brushes?

 

Deviantart has A LOT.

 

That's where I got mine from. I tried getting some Photoshop ones, but that didn't really work either. I guess It just boils down to me being to lazy to make my own.,

 

Update Gimp. The latest version can read .GBR and .ABR files, so that's probably not the problem.
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Nooo idea. I just know that when I had Gimp a while ago, I could install ABR brushes without having to convert them.
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Just download the latest one from their site.
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I've got Gimp 2.4, but it's on a mac, so I don't know if ABRs work. it's kind of strange though, I re-downloaded the brushes that failed before, and now they start out as GBRs, so I got everything to work fine. A mod can close this thread if they want, I've fixed my problem.