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March 9, 2016
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P: Respect Hierarchical Folders of Presets

  • March 9, 2016
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5 years ago, poster Sean Phillips first suggested this idea. Adobe has officially marked it as "implemented" - however, it is not implemented. Preset subfolders are scanned by LR, however, directory structure is not respected beyond the first level.

This makes preset management kludgy and inefficient. Please correct this by simply allowing the LR preset hierarchy to reflect the subfolder structure in the LR develop preset folder tree.

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Geoff the kiwi
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 24, 2017
Thanks for the clarification Victoria (she who knows al!! 🙂 🙂 )
Maybe we can push this along with Johns Filter option....????
Victoria Bampton LR Queen
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February 24, 2017
It was marked as implemented, and then there was more discussion about it and it was changed back to an active request.
Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Kelv64
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February 24, 2017
The above seems to be about photoshop but is applied to this conversation, I am wondering if someone has got their knickers in a twist over this
Kelv64
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February 24, 2017
5 years ago

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 I Jeffrey Tranberry, Sr. Product Manager, Digital Imaging

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Official Response





Hierarchical Develop Presets was implemented in Lightroom 4: 

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...
Kelv64
Participating Frequently
February 24, 2017
I just asked one of the mods if they can confirm this, though I have also seen it marked somewhere as Implemented, just cannot recall how to get to it again.
Geoff the kiwi
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Community Expert
February 24, 2017
Where is it marked in this thread as Implemented???
john beardsworth
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February 23, 2017
"Hear it from John - Organization is superficial....."

No, you can't cut and paste properly. What I said was replicating the folder hierarchy in the UI seems superficially attractive.
Tobias Schneider
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February 23, 2017
Replicating the folder hierarchy in the UI seems superficially attractive, but it just substitutes one problem for another.

Not if you create a well thought out hierarchy that suits your workflow.
Sean Phillips
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February 23, 2017
Agreed. The fact that they marked this as complete years ago when it clearly wasn't proved that they aren't interested.
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February 23, 2017
Listen, it's a waste of time to argue about hierarchical folders versus filtering/search. If we could have both implemented, it would help all of us. But we have been posting about this request for way over a year with no response or reply from Adobe. They appear disinterested in this idea and these suggestions. Having both works for the largest number of users who are people who love Adobe, but are frustrated by the lack action from Adobe. There's more competition now and users are losing their love for Adobe. I wish they would pay attention!