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December 5, 2023
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Where are my own CameraRaw presets saved?

  • December 5, 2023
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When i create my own presets with CameraRaw, i can save them on my Mac. But when i take a look in the path: library/application support/Adobe/Cameraraw/settings I can't see my own saved presets here? Where does Photoshop keep them?

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Conrad_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 5, 2023

And in case the difference is not clear already, the literal location of the path in your post is the central read-only system location outside of any user accounts…

[STARTUP VOLUME NAME]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/Settings

 

…which is not the same as the correct path for where your own settings are stored, which is within your own user account:

[STARTUP VOLUME NAME]/Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/Settings

 

Sometimes you see that in shorthand, with the ~ symbol as the first character, so if you see that character at the beginning a path in a help file or web page, don’t ignore it because it means a user’s path, not the system path. For example:

/Library/… would be the system location.

~/Library/… would be within a user account location.

 

If a Mac has 3 user accounts, each user would see their own settings in the Library folder within each of their own user accounts, not the central read-only settings in the Library outside of all user accounts. This is the standard hierarchical folder organization for Mac/Unix and Windows systems.

www.votos.nl
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December 7, 2023

I understand that i should be having 2 directories on my Mac, the problem is i only have one!

 

But wait.... After some google searches, i found out the library map on my user account is hidden! 

With CMD + SHIFT + . (period) you can make the hidden files visible. And voila, i found my own created presets!!!

Thanks for the suggestions!

Participant
September 12, 2024

This was SO helpful! I was having trouble because mine were also not showing. This helped me find my files!

Jeff Arola
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 5, 2023

In your User Library

 

Macintosh HD/Users/UserName/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/Settings

 

An easy way to get to your User Library is to click on your desktop hold down the Option key while clicking on the

Go menu and click Library