Lightroom Classic: Develop Presets did not all convert to new format in 7.3

[dons88830086]

On the first start up the new LR 7.3 converted 3 folders of develop presets, but not the rest (I have them organized by where I got them).  I can now not make new folders in the Preset panel to import the missing presets.  Any I import only go into User Presets.

[Rick Spaulding - Support]

Hi Don,

At first I thought I could no longer make a new preset folder but after playing with it a bit I found I needed to scroll up to find "New Group"

Like this:



Does that help?

[Henkki Zakkinen]

Hi,
so far I cannot reproduce this issue. All presets converted here.
Also I can:

• right click on a folder and import directly into it
• move presets between folders by dragging them with the mouse

To create a new folder, I just created a new dummy preset that I deleted when I no longer needed it.

Hope that helps.

[Henkki Zakkinen]

Found New Group in the Develop-menu. Also accessible via Alt + Ctrl + N. But apparently this isn't working.

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

Confirmed here.

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

Don, check your file permissions for presets that aren't converting. It's a long shot, but some of mine were set to Read-Only and didn't convert correctly until I changed them. File locations are listed here: Lightroom Classic File Locations

[dons88830086]

Yes, it is broken.  Has someone reported this bug? 

[dons88830086]

Is that when you create a new preset?  Not clear how you got there.

[Jerry Syder]

That’s correct. It’s not quite clear, nor is it intuitive but when you click the plus sign to create a preset, at the top, where it allows you to select the folder(i.e. User Presets), click on it and it should be the first option.

[dons88830086]

We are having the same discussion on your forums 😉 

[dons88830086]

I can create a folder this way, then manually import my presets that did not copy and convert on the first start up of LR 7.3.  A cumbersome workaround.    

[sethcarnill]

Hi Victoria, how do I restart the conversion process once I have amended the permissions?

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

Just restarting Lightroom will convert any that don't have a ~ on the filename

[dons88830086]

This is with the presets in the old location? It did not work for me.  

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

This is getting confusing with the same conversation in 2 places. 😉  Which shall we use to carry on? Here is probably best so the engineers can follow.

[dons88830086]

I was just trying to make it clear for Seth, and to confirm I was doing what you suggested.  I have imported all manually, so I am just trying to help now.  

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Permissions don't see to be the problem.  Folders named A-R automatically converted to .xmp (and renamed the old files with a tilde), but anything S-Z will not auto convert.  This includes those with open permissions.  
I've done to work around where I've created a dummy folder and imported manually - this seems to be working, but also isn't renaming the original .lrtemplate files with a "~" which I imagine will create duplicates once the conversion tool is fixed...

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Permissions don't see to be the problem.  Folders named A-R automatically converted to .xmp (and renamed the old files with a tilde), but anything S-Z will not auto convert.  This includes those with open permissions.  
I've done to work around where I've created a dummy folder and imported manually - this seems to be working, but also isn't renaming the original .lrtemplate files with a "~" which I imagine will create duplicates once the conversion tool is fixed...

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

reposting this from the adobe Lightroom support forums.

Updating to the new Lightroom Classic CC v 7.3 I found I was missing a large majority of my user presets.  In this new version of LR presets are converted from .lrtemplate to .xmp presumably to help with previous cross application issues and keeping everything in a central location.  After some digging, I realized they also have moved the active preset bank from the Lightroom to the CameraRaw folder (the preferences menu still directs you to the Lightroom folder which is an issue when importing anything new).  It also only converted and moved about 1/2 of my user presets converting every folder A-R but stopping there leaving behind the most necessary previous "User Preset" custom folder.

SO

1) The Lightroom Preferences Presets menu "Show Lightroom Presets Folder" needs to be updated to direct to the CameraRaw settings folder if that's where presets now live.

2) How does one convert .lrtemplate files to .xmp (or how can I reinitiate the automatic conversion that began when initially I updated the application itself).

macOS High Sierra 10.13.3

iMac Pro 3 GHz Intel Xeon W

128 GB ram

Radeon Pro Vega 64 16GB

[Rick Spaulding - Support]

tracking issue in new thread

Please reference the new conversation here: Lightroom Classic 7.3: Keyboard Shortcut for Presets "New Group" not working.

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

Anything non-standard about the S-Z presets? A different character in a folder name or preset name, something like that?

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

No, and regardless the standard Lightroom created "User Presets" folder did not automatically convert so that should speak to there being some choke in the conversion process that's not based on permissions.
A few of us are seeing the same issue. https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2473692

[Art M.]

I never even use presets but my new version of LR is stuck in "updating presets" after 20 minutes at least.    MBPr 13" 2015 16gb 1tb I7 everything updated including OS.   

[simonsaith]

Try force kill the Lr 7.3 process and relaunch and see what happens.

[sethcarnill]

Permissions don't seem to be the issue with me either... all folders containing presets have read and write permissions.  

Only 1 folder of presets was converted for me (and not fully)... it was the first folder (alphabetically) in my Develop Presets folder.  

I have approx 80 folders of presets in total.

Also converted were some presets made by DVLOP which I had purchased... I think these may have already been installed in the ACR folder, so it's unclear whether the new LR 7.3 was converting old presets or just using the ones that already existed in the ACR folder... (at this point I'm as confused as Lightroom seems to be....)

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Same here only half of my presets converted, have now un-installed v7.3 and re-installed v7.2 which reinstated the lost presets. Over to you Adobe to sort this issue. 

System MacOS High Sierra latest update.