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TJM JHWY
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April 4, 2018
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Lightroom Presets not sorted alphabetically

  • April 4, 2018
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I have a group of Presets that were in a specific order, 1A, 2A, 1B, ect...  With the Lightroom 7.3 Upgrade, the order became all wacky and I can't seem to get it to sort.  Any ideas?

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    gadgetgeek2000
    Known Participant
    April 24, 2018

    I updated this morning. The sorting looks better. After converting the presets again I now have duplicate presets in my list. I will go through the duplicates and remove one of them. im not sure why I have duplicates, however.

    One unexpected behavior was that all presets were missing when I opened a photo that was offline. I don’t recall seeing everything disappear with an offline photo, so I initially thought the conversion process had deleted all my presets. After switching to an available photo my presets showed properly.

    Akash Sharma
    Akash Sharma
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    April 4, 2018

    Hi TJMJHWY,

    Sorry that your presets are not sorted alphabetically after the Lightroom Classic CC 7.3 update. We are aware of this problem and our Engineering team is working on it.

    Please refer this discussion: Lightroom Classic: Develop Presets Not Sorting Correctly (macOS - High Sierra) | Photoshop Family Customer Community  where our Engineers are tracking it.

    I'd suggest that you add your vote and feedback to the above discussion which is being monitored by our our Engineers.

    Thanks,

    Akash

    kriskuzniar
    kriskuzniar
    Participant
    April 9, 2018

    This completely unprofessional. The last downgrade I should say messes everything up. What am I paying for? All presets are wrong. You should give us a discount on next month sub.

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      Mr.Ngoway
      Participating Frequently
      May 4, 2018

      The Presets can be re-named by a Right-click,

      And if you adopt the system:   001 - 002 - 010 - 100    with the zeros prefix to pad out the numbers they will sort correctly.

      Numerical Sort works the same as the OS in that it looks at the first character and puts those in place in the list then it goes to the second character and lists those, etc, so you get the 1 - 10 - 100 - 2 - 200, - 3, etc.

      Preset Groups however, cannot be re-named (in current LR version). Even renaming the Group 'folder' with File Explorer/Finder does not update the Group name in LR.

      If you only have a few Groups to rename a work-around might be to create all the new Group names by saving a 'dummy' preset and the new Group name, then drag and drop the presets from 'old' group to 'new' group.


      I have a couple thousands of presets. Are you suggesting that I should right click one by one?

      Everything were okay in the order of 1 2 3... before the update. Now it's 1 10 100... 2 20 200...

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