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saaraaaa
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July 12, 2016
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Lightroom presets disappeared

  • July 12, 2016
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All my Lightroom presets disappeared. As the pictures below show. The Edit-> preferences-> presets, the box is unchecked. The lightroom folder shows that lightroom presets-folder is empty. And there's on the left hand side just preset-menu and nothing underneath. Also by clicking the right hand side of the mouse: the presets are checked.

Is there anything I can do? Thank you for your help!

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PaulWayland
PaulWayland
New Participant
February 16, 2017

I had the same problem; my presets and the Preset button just disappeared. Lightroom, user and downloaded presets. After trial and error, I created a new user preset and they all magically reappeared. Go figure!

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richard29902835emmm
New Participant
May 16, 2023

6 years later and you just saved my ass after nothing else was working !

    Bob Somrak
    Bob Somrak
    Legend
    July 13, 2016

    When you click the + can you create a NEW preset?

    M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
    Just Shoot Me
    Just Shoot Me
    Legend
    July 12, 2016

    Please post the Exact path to where your install of LR is looking for the presets. It should be

    C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Develop Presets\Lightroom Presets.

    In your screen shot above the Path seems to be pointing to the C drive but then to a subfolder called Adobe and not to the Users subfolder.

    Bob Somrak
    Bob Somrak
    Legend
    July 12, 2016

    Even the built in presets are gone and I don't think the built in presets are located there so that shouldn't solve the problem.

    I wish the built in presets were located there as I would erase about 90% of them.  Adobe should give the user a way to get rid of the built in presets as most of them are worthless for many users.

    M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
      Just Shoot Me
      Just Shoot Me
      Legend
      July 12, 2016

      I did that on the Mac.  That folder just shows the User Presets and not the built in like you show, even with show hidden files turned on.  I will have to do some searching unless someone knows where they are hidden.  Not a big deal but I am tired of them taking up space.


      I don't have LR install on my virtual Machine of OS X so I can't check but normally they would be in the Users\YourUserName folder.

      From an Adobe document.

      Presets and templates

      /Users/[user name]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/[preset or template folder]/[preset or template filename.lrtemplate]

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