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chrisknight15
chrisknight15
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February 1, 2023
Question

LR crashed with catalog problems and now all presets and watermarks are gone

  • February 1, 2023
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Last night on two occasions when i closed down LR and asked it to back up it froze on me during the back up catalog process. On both occasions I had to force quit and when I re opened it gave me an error message someothing like the catalog file is broken, click here to fix it. When i did that it said cant fix, try again, which I did but it couldnt fix it. 

In the end I managed to click on a catalog saved in my backups from earlier in the day and now it seems to be ok. 

However I realised that when i turned it on today my global presets are there however the folder I created which I think was called favouries which was some of my favourites and a few that I had created are missing. My watermarks are all missing and my local presets that I hade made are all missing.

Is there a way I can find these and get them back as this is extremely frustrating.

I did try restoring the catalog from yesterday when I think everything was ok but then it wont see all the images ive imported or played with in the last day and even when it loaded that the prests and watermarks were still missing

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Sean McCormack
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Sean McCormackCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 1, 2023

Go to Preferences/Lightroom Settings in the Lightroom Classic menu. I believe it's Settings rather than Preferences in Ventura, but I haven't updated yet. 

In Presets, check that Store Presets with this Catalog is off. There's two buttons there: Show Lightroom Develop Presets and Show All Other Lightroom Presets. 

These will show the Develop Presets and a folder that contains everything else including Watermarks. 

What do you see there? 

 

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.
chrisknight15
chrisknight15Author
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February 1, 2023

Hi

store presets with this catalog was ticked and when it was show Lightroom develop presets takes me to my current Lightroom catalog backup 

and show all other lr presets takes me to lr settings within that catalog.

if i un tick that - show lr develop presets takes me to a settings tab with lots of index files 

and show all other lr presets takes me to a Lightroom folder in my library- library- application support- adobe-Lightroom 

chris 

Sean McCormack
Community Expert
Sean McCormackCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 1, 2023

Having that ticked means the presets were stored in a folder called 'Lightroom Classic Settings' within the old catalog folder. Your presets etc are there. 

 

While Store Presets with catalog seems like a great idea, if you use more than one catalog, you can't access them. The Settings folder is the main folder for Lightroom and Camera Raw presets. The Lightroom folder has everything else inside it in named folders, 

 

 

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.
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