Missing Drop Shadow effect in AE

[ZanlongC]

Hi guys,

The Drop Shadow effect in my After Effects suddenly disappeared. I checked the Presets folder in my Mac and it is not in there. After Effects keeps telling me the preset is 'missing'. I'm using AE version 23.4 on an iMac with macOS Monterey. Does anyone have any idea what happened? I tied to re-install the AE app, but didn't help. That preset is still missing.

 

 

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[Andrew Yoole]

This suggests that the plugin is no longer in the expected folder.  Have you moved or deleted any files within the After Effects folder?

On your Mac, the standard location to find plugins for a current version of AE is 

Macinosh HD > Applications > Adobe After Effects 2023 > Plug-ins > Effects

The file name is Drop_Shadow.plugin

If it isn't there, try searching your hard drive for that file name, in case you've inadvertantly moved it.  If you find it elsewhere , put it back in the correct place and restart After Effects.

If you can't find it at all, use the Adobe CC Manager to re-install After Effects.

[krešon44727083]

It might be that After Effects disabled it because of some errors. That happened to me. So, what you'll need to do here is go to Effects > Manage Effects... > Disable checkmar for Only Show Third-Party Effects and find it (or type in search) in the list and enable it. I hope that's the case and will help.

[Robert Mize]

I had the same problem.

Thanks for a spot-on solution !

[malak32775622j081]

so helpful, solved my problem

thank you!

[Alex R. 143435]

Exactly! AE turned it off after a crash. 

[Rob Wells]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!  You saved me!