How to convert lrtemplate to XMP ?

This tool here can convert xmp to lrtemplate and viceversa: https://www.allievi-photography.com/lightroom-template-converter/

The John Rellis method worked for me. Thank you.

Hi, i have a doubt even the program lightroom convet lrtemplate into xmp. Those it work that same and have the same properties if i just install real xmp presets. It´s just a technical random question.

Thanks

"it's XMP format, which for some reason has .lrtemplate file extension. Hence, LR does not understand it. After i renamed the file with correct file extension - xmp - LR imported it without problems."

Glad you got it resolved.  LR's error message is more than a little unhelpful in this case.

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"crs:PresetType="Normal" is the only mention of 'type' in these lrtempate files. So I guess this is Develop preset. "

Open  the .lrtemplate file in a text editor and copy and paste its entire contents here.

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The error message is, "The preset file was the wrong type of preset". This indicates that the .lrtemplate file is not a Develop preset but another kind of preset, most likely a local-adjustment preset that appears in the Effect menu for local adjustments (Graduated Filter, Radial Filter, Adjustment Brush). 

You can easily check the type of the .lrtemplate. Open it in a text editor (e.g. Notepad or TextEdit) and look for one these lines:

type = "LocalizedAdjustmentPreset",

type = "Develop",

If indeed it's a local-adjustment preset, then to install it, click Preferences > Presets > Show All Other Lightroom Presets. That will open File Explorer / Finder on the "Lightroom" folder, and put the .lrtemplate file into the "Local Adjustment Presets" subfolder.

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Sorry... but still the same question about importing lrtempate presents. I read this thread but still cannot understand how to import new lrtempate presets i got from ViewBug community.
I'm using LR Classic 10.1.1. In Presets panel, I clicked on Import... in Presets panel, select a preset from my folder (not zip) 

and then get an error message as below 

Appreciate any help! thanks in advance!

Fantastic - Thanks for this  - I have been going round in circles - worked perfectly 

@coreyc60589564 wrote, "All my old presets are the lrtemplate and I'm now using Lightroom Classic version 10.0, the newest one I believe as I just got it. I do as instructed in your post and all my presets are in the Develop Presets folder as lrtemplate. See screenshots. However, when I restart my computer, they aren't transferred to the new extension. What am I doing wrong?"

When a version of LR later than 7.2 starts (including LR 10), it looks for old-format .lrtemplate presets in the Develop Presets folder and converts them to new-format .xmp presets in a new Settings folder. The easiest way to find that new folder is by doing Preferences > Presets > Show Lightroom Develop Presets, which will open File Explorer or Finder on that folder.

Note that the old .lrtemplate presets in the old Develop Presets folder will be renamed to start with "~~" to indicate they've been converted.

When you start LR 10 and edit a photo in Develop, do you not see your presets?  Click the + button in the upper-right corner of the Presets panel and do Manage Presets.  Check the boxes next to all the preset groups to make sure they're visible.

If you don't see your presets in the Presets panel, do Show Lightroom Develop Presets and show us a screenshot of the contents of the Settings folder.

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"When I click the plus button on the presets panel and click on the folder with the "lrtemplates" it says "unable to import presents". It works only with xmp files."

Your screenshot adds a crucial detail: you're importing from a .zip. Unfortunately, LR won't import .lrtemplate presets contained in a .zip.  You'll have to extract the .zip into a folder, then when importing with Presets panel > + > Import Presets (not File > Import Develop Profiles and Presets), navigate to that folder and select all the .lrtemplate files in it.

When Adobe implemented the new .xmp format for presets, it did a pretty bad job with the user interface, with lots of rough edges that continually confuse many, many people:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-remove-all-the-rough-edges-around-importing-presets/5f5f46264b561a3d42766b2c 

They've shown no inclination to fix any of this.

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