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saaraaaa
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July 12, 2016
Question

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
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
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
      Rob_Cullen
      Community Expert
      Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 13, 2016

      When I seen your screen clip showing the prebuilt presets in the Develop Preset folder I was hoping Adobe finally pulled them out of their hiding place and I could just delete them.  If you find the location on Windows let me know and I will search some more on my Mac.


      Has the OP  Saaraaaa, been successful in restoring the presets?

      Was a LR re-install done?

      Just Shoot Me- must certainly be seeing leftovers from a previous install (2011?) as in the screen-clip post#10.

      In Windows-10, I cannot find anywhere the LR default presets folders (B&W Filter..., etc).

      If I create a new catalog, and check "store presets with the catalog", then delete the Presets folders using file explorer, re-start Lightroom, the default Presets folders are re-created. And why this is not happening for the OP? Why are the default presets not re-created when LR is started?

      Following thread for an answer to the mystery of the 'Disappearing Presets'

      Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
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