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October 17, 2018
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All custom develop presets were successfully converted to xmp

  • October 17, 2018
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I use LR Classic CC on a Mac.  Every time I open LR I get the message "All custom develop presets were successfully converted to xmp" and it will not go away unless I click "ok".

Does anyone know how I can cause the message to quit appearing each time I open LR?

Thank you in advance for any suggestions you can offer.

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      Correct answer JohanElzenga

      Lightroom renames the old presets by placing two tildes in front of their name. That way it knows the next time that these presets have already been converted. If the folder that contains the old presets is locked, or Lightroom does not have write permissions, then it can't do this and so the next time it will convert the presets again.

      Go to Preferences - Presets and click on the button 'Show All Other Lightroom Presets'. Open the folder that gets selected in the Finder, and look for the 'Develop Presets' subfolder. That is the subfolder that contains the old presets. Make sure Lightroom can write to it, or you could trash all the old user presets.

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      JohanElzenga
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      JohanElzengaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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      October 18, 2018

      Lightroom renames the old presets by placing two tildes in front of their name. That way it knows the next time that these presets have already been converted. If the folder that contains the old presets is locked, or Lightroom does not have write permissions, then it can't do this and so the next time it will convert the presets again.

      Go to Preferences - Presets and click on the button 'Show All Other Lightroom Presets'. Open the folder that gets selected in the Finder, and look for the 'Develop Presets' subfolder. That is the subfolder that contains the old presets. Make sure Lightroom can write to it, or you could trash all the old user presets.

      -- Johan W. Elzenga
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      Breeze 3Author
      Inspiring
      October 18, 2018

      JohanEl54,  thank you very much for your help.

      The Finder folder had 6 presets with a ~~in front of the name and 9 presets with no tildes in front of the name.  I put the 9 presets in the trash and that solved the problem.

      In your instructions you said "Make sure Lightroom can write to it, or you could trash all the old user presets."   6 of the presets were preceded by~~ so I I could assume that LR can write to that folder, right?

      When I put the 9 in the trash, I got a warning that they were locked.  If I wanted to put the 9 back in its Finder folder, do you know how I would unlock them so the LR could write to them?

      Thanks again for your help. 

      ManiacJoe
      ManiacJoe
      Inspiring
      October 19, 2018

      Using Finder, go to the folder containing the LrTemplate files and look at the properties of these "locked" files.

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