Migrating Lightroom camera raw profiles to new computer

Question

When migrating Lightroom to a new Windows PC, in addition to manually copying your presets and preferences you must copy any camera profiles you have created. Before doing so, be sure to run your new installation of Lightroom on the new computer first. The expected folder structure is not created during the installation.

This folder tree is only created upon the first run of Lightroom.

C:\USERS\[username]\APPDATA\ROAMING\ADOBE\CAMERARAW
├───CameraProfiles
├───Curves
├───Defaults
├───GPU
│ └───Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic
├───ImportedSettings
├───LensProfiles
├───Logs
├───ModelZoo
│ └───CloudDownload
└───Settings

The custom profiles ultimately need to go in

C:\USERS\[username]\APPDATA\ROAMING\ADOBE\CAMERARAW
├───CameraProfiles
│ └───Imported

so you still may need to manually create that final "Imported" folder.

Adobe, please make this migration process easier.

JohanElzenga · Answer

"The custom profiles ultimately need to go inC:\USERS\[username]\APPDATA\ROAMING\ADOBE\CAMERARAW├───CameraProfiles│ └───Importedso you still may need to manually create that final "Imported" folder."No, you don't have to create that folder. Lightroom Classic creates this subfolder when it imports profiles, but they do not have to be in that folder. They can also be stored in the CameraProfiles folder, although I believe in that case you might have to store them in a '1.0' subfolder... The easiest method is to simply import them again on the new machine, however. Then you are sure they'll end up in the correct folder, so that's the easier method you asked for!

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