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I think this has probably been asked and answered somewhere but I couldn't find the information so would be grateful for some help.
I'm struggling to import my old preset folders from an earlier version of Lightroom Classic (on a different iMac) to my newer iMac and latest version of Lightroom Classic.
Within Lightroom I can import individual lrtemplate files from my old preset folders but not the containing folder. Because I have quite a few folders, I'd like to have the files organised in the same way to distinguish between them. Is there something obvious I'm missing in order to import the files AND the containing folders?
Thanks very much.
You can’t have subfolders under the user presets folder. Lightroom has never supported that, and still does not.
You can move presets from one folder to another by drag and drop. Creating a new folder is possible when you create a new preset, so to create a new folder for existing presets you can create a temporary new preset in a new folder, then drag and drop your existing presets into that folder, and then delete the temporary preset again.
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You've mentioned that they're based on lrtemplate rather than XMP. As such, much of the folder and formatting structure is absent. You can use the Preset Manager to fix this though.
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Hi Ian. Thanks for your reply.
I can't import the parent folder (containing my presets) into Lightroom, just the contents, so after importing the lrtemplate files (which seems to convert them to xmp files) I get a list of ALL of them under User Presets. Managing them allows me to show or not show them but doesn't allow me to put them into different named folders.
I hope I'm being clear; what I'm trying to achieve is different named folders under User Presets. How do I do that?
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You can’t have subfolders under the user presets folder. Lightroom has never supported that, and still does not.
You can move presets from one folder to another by drag and drop. Creating a new folder is possible when you create a new preset, so to create a new folder for existing presets you can create a temporary new preset in a new folder, then drag and drop your existing presets into that folder, and then delete the temporary preset again.
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Thanks Johan, I think I understand it now. After fiddling about a bit I managed to create the preset folders I wanted with the files in them.
I seem to remember the separate folders were created in the older version just by dragging them into the Settings folder (and contained those groups of files) where in this newer version all those files appear together in the User Presets folder. No matter, I got the result I wanted.
Thanks again
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Yes, in Lightroom before version 7.3, the folders in Lightroom matched the folders on your disk. That changed with version 7.3. The folder info is now stored inside the preset itself, and folders on disk are ignored.
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Got it. The old way seemed much simpler, but that's progress I guess
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This is why I pointed out the Fix Presets Lightroom Plugin which reads the Finder/Explorer folder structure and puts this into the xmp.
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Ah, OK john, I'll take a look at that too. Thanks
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Also see the Fix Presets Lightroom Plugin
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