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Hello everyone, after reading virtually everything I could on the topic I still haven't got a solution for this.
My User presets aren't showing up in the develop presets tab and when clicking import from there + sign or from File>Import Develop Presets it says presets already imported.
The visibility from Preference is ticked, Store presets with this calatalogue is unticked, yet nothign changes. The presets are all .xpm files.
I have checked and added them to folder CameraRaw/Settings.
Interestingly, I can see them and apply them in Preferences>Presets>Raw defaults (see the screenshot) but this doesn't change anything to the usability in Develop panel.
Any guesses how to fix this would be hugely apprecaited!
Hi Todd, I found the issue and actually am sorry for wasting your time. This was so obvious yet I found out only now. You are right, the presets are in develop, I just need to click the > to the left of User Presets for them to appear in a dropdown. I was clicking on the word "User Presets" and on the whole row previously but one needs to click only on the arrow for them to appear. Thanks a lot for your time and help on this 🙂
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They may be Camera Model specific. Where did you get them? If you can post one of them to Dropbox or other file sharing site I'll take a look at it.
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Hi, thanks for having a look into it. A lot of these presets have been collected over the years from various different places but some have been developed by myself on my old laptop when I have been using the same camera as the one I have right now. Here is a link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qdyqonxdJGbt6UvaCzRnq_lxZXGRh-C5?usp=sharing it contains presets created by myself and some downloaded frm various different places.
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I down loaded the presets and placed them in C:\Users\Todd\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\Settings
They appear after closing and reopening LrC in a Presets folder named 'User Presets.' They are not camera restricted. Do you see a 'User Presets' folder a shown below?
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Hi, I do see the folder User Presets in the preset tab but it is empty and nothing below it or when I click on it. I did check and the presets are in CameraRAW/Settings folder. I deleted them and added them again, relaunch Lightroom, no change. They still apepar though in Preferences>Presets>RawDefaults>Master>UserPresets and they can be seen there- the whole list but even if I select one preset from there it doesn't change anything in Develop module.
Why would they be coming up only in RawDefaults Preferences? I am not familiar with this section of Lightroom, it seems to be about preferences for imprting Raw files. I even selected one preset from there and imported a Raw file and nothign changed.
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Use the Creative Cloud app to uinstall LrC, restart yoru system, and then reinstall LrC 10.2.
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Hey Todd, just did that, no change at all again.
Starting to loose hope, haha. Interestingly, I deleted the presets from CameraRAW/Settings and they are still appearing in Preferences>Presets>RawDefaults>Master>UserPresets for some reason, though still none accessible or usable in Develop module. I have by now put them in basically every presets folder location I could think of and nothing has worked out but the fact that they appear in RawDefaults preferences constantly is just baffling me..
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Anytime you add or remove presets and make Preferences chnages LrC needs to be closed and then reopened for the changes to take effect.
Why they are showing in the 'Raw Defaults' selector and not in the Presets panel indicates they are being linked from another folder location. I suggest removing all instances of the missing presets from all folders by doing a File Explorer or Finder search using one of the missing presets name without the .XMP extension. For example Golden Hour. Once all are removed close and reopen LrC and then use the Preset panel Import Presets (+) to add them back. If still not appearing try resetting the LrC Preferences file.
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/
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I just tried a search on my system for a specific develop preset and found three instances. I suggest removing ALL of these files, close and reopen LrC and then use the Preset panel Import Presets (+) to add them back.
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Hi Todd, I just did all of the above, even updated my Macbook to the newest software, nothing changes. I deleted all presets from all folders, restarted preferences, restarted the laptop, relaunched Lightroom. And again when I import them, User Presets folder appears in the tab in Develop, they do appear in Preferences>RawDefaults but no presets can be seen or used in Develop.
I noticed that by importing via the + and also via File>Import develop profiles and presets, the presets are oging to folder Imported Settings in CameraRaw, not Settings in CameraRaw. Then I decided to delete them again and manually add in folder Settings (where I ready they should be normally) and not Imported Settings as it was doing automatically. Again, no luck. I think this is an issue of User PResets visibility in Develop module, not the presets folder, the folder is okay and the User PResets can be see from RAWDefaults Presets Preferences.
Can the catalogue have any effect on this? I think I have more than one catalogues on the laptop? Really loosing any hope here, do you know if there is a way for me to get in touch with Adobe?
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Please post a picture of the Presets panel. I'm guessing the presets are there, but in a different group. You can also try John Ellis' Fix Presets plugin, which allows reorganizing your presets, which may help reveal them.
https://johnrellis.com/lightroom/fixpresets.htm
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Hi Todd, I found the issue and actually am sorry for wasting your time. This was so obvious yet I found out only now. You are right, the presets are in develop, I just need to click the > to the left of User Presets for them to appear in a dropdown. I was clicking on the word "User Presets" and on the whole row previously but one needs to click only on the arrow for them to appear. Thanks a lot for your time and help on this 🙂
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LrC shares the same profiles as Camera Raw so they had to be there somewhere in the Presets panel. I've had my share of those DUH moments when forgetting how to use a tool. Glad you got it resolved.