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January 31, 2025

P: Exporting Preset fails to overwrite previous preset

  • January 31, 2025
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Product: Adobe Lightroom

Version: 8.1

Operating System: MacOS

OS Version: Sonoma 14.5

 

Issue: When exporting a User Preset to the same file name, despite the warning about the file being replaced, the file is not overwritten. 

 

How to replicate:

1. Create a User Preset

2. Adjust White Balance Temperature

3. Right Click and Export Preset with filename Test.xmp

4. Open the Test.xmp exported preset file in a Text editor like TextEdit and Note down the Temperature value. (should be something like: (crs:Temperature="5000")

4. Change the Temperature value in Lightroom

5. Right Click and Update Preset with Current Settings

6. Right Click and Export Preset, select the same location and file from Step 3

7. Click Replace when the warning about overwriting the file shows up.

8. Open the preset file in a Text editor and look at the Temperature value.

 

What is expected: To see the changed temperature value

 

What is observed: The same, unchanged temperature value.

 

Open the Test.xmp Preset file in a text editor and notice 

2 replies

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
April 24, 2025

Greetings all, 

 

A new update for Adobe Photography Products has been released.  The April updates contain an update for this issue. 

If you do not see the update in your Creative Cloud Application, you can refresh it by hitting [Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+[ R ].

Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your update to be available in your Creative Cloud app.

 

Thank you for being so patient.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 31, 2025

Thank you for your report. I was able to reproduce the failure and have logged a bug with the LrD team. 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org