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darrenstimulant
Participant
August 21, 2019
Question

Imported Settings get imported but aren't available in Presets panel

  • August 21, 2019
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Hi all-

I'm experiencing a very frustrating issue trying to import develop presets in Lightroom Classic CC 8.4 on Windows. I have several folders filled with .xmp files I'd like to import. I go through the process of creating a new folder in the Presets panel, I right-click on this new folder and select "Import...", shift-click to select multiple .xmp files, and the import progress bar pops up and then goes away. No presets are visible under the folder!

If I try the same thing again, Lightroom tells me that the presets have already been imported. Huh? Well, if I go poking around in my settings folder, I find all of the .xmp files hiding in:

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\ImportedSettings

But sadly there's nothing in:

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\Settings\

which is the folder that Lightroom directs me to in explorer if I select "Show Lightroom Develop Presets" from the presets preference tab.

Why are these getting filed away in the ImportedSettings folder and aren't available in the Presets panel?

Thanks in advance for any and all help,

Darren

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johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
August 21, 2019

There appear to be two separate issues:

1. When you import presets, LR places them in the ImportedSettings folder for some strange reason. An Adobe employee and Victoria "Lightroom Queen" Bampton said this was a deliberate design decision but they couldn't provide a meaningful design rationale. See here: Lightroom: Imported develop presets copied to wrong folder with Store Presets With This Catalog | Photoshop Family Custo…

2. The presets in your ImportedSettings folder aren't showing up in the Presets panel for some reason.  To troubleshoot this issue:

a. Please copy/paste the first ten lines of the menu command Help > System Info. You said you were on LR 8.4, but let's triple check that -- the Creative Cloud updater not infrequently fools people into thinking they're on the "lastest".

b. Upload one of the .xmp files to Dropbox or similar and post the sharing link here. We can verify what's going on (e.g. that it's a valid preset).

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