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Speksy
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June 18, 2021
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Lightroom CC export presets export_destinationPathPrefix different between Mac and PC.

  • June 18, 2021
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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.

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Correct answer Abambo

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.

 

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Abambo
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AbamboCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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June 19, 2021

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.

 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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    SpeksyAuthor
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    June 22, 2021

    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
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    AbamboCommunity Expert
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    June 22, 2021

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

    ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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