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Anonymous
April 25, 2018
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Restructure of presets failed

  • April 25, 2018
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Hello,

I have the newest Lightroom Classic Update on Windows 10 running.

Now I wanted to reorder my presets and sort them out a little bit. I went to the preset folder and restructured and deleted presets. But No change in Lightroom. Still the same presets after a restart and still the old order. Is there something where i could do like a cache reset? I once by accident said to store presets in the cataloque folder but unchecked this again.

What could i do?

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    Correct answer Bob Somrak

    Lr 7.3 XMP presets no longer respect the disk folder structure.  The new presets are in GROUPS and the group is defined in the XMP file itself.  Strangely, if you create a new preset and at the same time a new group (the only way to create a group) a new FOLDER is created on the disk with the group name but this folder is unimportant to the preset.  If you drag and drop the new preset to a different group using the Lr preset panel the preset STILL stays in its original folder on the disk.  In essence, you can't use the OS to rearrange the presets, you have to use Lr or edit the group name in the XMP file.  It seems like an odd and unnecessary design at this time but maybe Adobe has future plans that need this structure. 

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    Anonymous
    April 27, 2018

    So to let you know.

    Deleting the presets in the Camera Raw folder and Ligghtroom folder helped to clean out the presets.

    Than I restructured them and started lightroom again and it worked.

    The problem just if you don't have your presets somewhere else also stored: You have to remove the ~ in front of the preset name for lightroom to read it again.

    Bob Somrak
    Bob SomrakCorrect answer
    Legend
    April 25, 2018

    Lr 7.3 XMP presets no longer respect the disk folder structure.  The new presets are in GROUPS and the group is defined in the XMP file itself.  Strangely, if you create a new preset and at the same time a new group (the only way to create a group) a new FOLDER is created on the disk with the group name but this folder is unimportant to the preset.  If you drag and drop the new preset to a different group using the Lr preset panel the preset STILL stays in its original folder on the disk.  In essence, you can't use the OS to rearrange the presets, you have to use Lr or edit the group name in the XMP file.  It seems like an odd and unnecessary design at this time but maybe Adobe has future plans that need this structure. 

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    Anonymous
    April 26, 2018

    Thank you for the answer. I already thought it has something to do with the new XMP files.

    What I would like to know:

    Where is the XMP-File and can i delete it, so that at the next start i can load in allpresets from the beginning?

    The restructuring of the presets in Lightroom takes a lot of time and from what I saw is if I delete a presset and reimport it, it will apper at the old position again. Propably because its still written like this in the XMP

    Ian Lyons
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    Ian LyonsCommunity Expert
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    April 26, 2018

    max2331  wrote

    Where is the XMP-File and can i delete it, so that at the next start i can load in allpresets from the beginning?

    Mac: Macintosh HD / Users / [your username] / Library / Application Support / Adobe / CameraRaw / Settings /

    Windows: C: \ Users \ [your username] \ AppData \ Roaming \ Adobe \ CameraRaw \ Settings \

    99jon
    99jon
    Legend
    April 25, 2018

    Are you running LR 7.3.1

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