Lightroom CC export presets export_destinationPathPrefix different between Mac and PC.

[Speksy]

Hi,

I'm trying to migrate many export presets from Lightroom CC on PC to Lightroom CC on MAC. And it turns out that export presets lost their Export Location folder. Originally it is on network attached storage (NAS). And for example on PC location in  .lrtemplate file of the export presets
export_destinationPathPrefix = "\\\\NAS\\photo\\"

and on MAC the same property is

export_destinationPathPrefix = "/Volumes/photo/"

which i think is causing this issue.

I have moved manually presets folder from PC location to Mac location and all export presets appears in Export section. Is there any automatic migration utility for these presets ? I really want to have the same presets between both PC and Mac without recreating all of them on both machines. Also I'm not sure if this is supported way to manually do that but it will be good if there is any way to migrate all settings between LR CC between two machines with different OS.

[Abambo · Accepted solution]

Just for info: the first \ is the escape key for the following character, so \\ means truly \, as the backslash is used for escaping special characters.

You can change the items with text editor.

[Speksy]

Hi Abambo,

Thanks for the answer. Probably I will use eventually some app like notepad++ to replace all strings and slashes to correct one, but I will need to do that every time when I move export presets from one OS to the other. In my case after replacing \\\\NAS\\ with /Volumes/ and changing all backslashes to forward slashes will make paths correct. However I want to find out is there any other way to do that, instead of manually recreate all of the export presets or replacing some texts in the .lrtemplate. 

Regards.

[Abambo]

My export presets change only slowly, but I have a collection of around 30 that I use often. So, I would need to use that once only. You can also find automated solutions like a script using the Unix line editor ed. Established once, it will change the data always the same way.

[Speksy]

I will mark this as correct answer as eventually it works + some other steps on top:
1) Change all \\\\NAS to /Volumes
2) Change all other \\ to /
3) Close LR CC
4) Using Option + Shift + Open LR CC to reset preferences 
5) In the beginning it was kind of buggy showing export locations as the same but after click in each of the export presets without exporting in the panel + close and reopen now everything looks ok. 

Probably will create some sort of script to do that automatically for further use. 

Thanks to Abambo.

Regards.

[Abambo]

You're welcome. For your script, you should definitely consider ed, well, except if you have a different tool like that!