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August 6, 2022
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Missing profiles in Lightroom Classic

  • August 6, 2022
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Hi, 

I newly upgraded to Mac Studio running Monterey OS 12.5. Profiles are stored in Color Sync folder for both the root HD and the user.  The printer is Epson 3880. All profiles, including canned and custom appear and are available in the Photoshop print dialog. However, only the canned profiles appear and are availble in Lightroom. I've tried renaming them and have deleted and reinstalled the printer. Nothing helps. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

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TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
August 7, 2022

Oh, and the profile doesn't show up in Apple's Preview (Assign Profile) and it doesn't show up in Graphic's Converter which is ICC aware. 

The bottom line at this point; it's the profile. 

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
NB, colourmanagement
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 8, 2022

Can the OP rebuild it as a v4 profile?

I showed that settings area in i1P. If he made the first profile surely he can have another try with a V2 icc spec?

 

I hope this helps neil barstow, colourmanagement net :: adobe forum volunteer google me "neil barstow colourmanagement" for lots of free articles on colour management 

NB, colourmanagement
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 7, 2022

ICC profiles have an internal name (generally use for in-application display) and an external name (that’s the one you see in a folder), if you rename them you're only affecting the external name - then the new name does not show up in applications.

Many third-party media profiles have different internal names, don't ask me why!

 

I suggest you open a missing profile (just one) in the colorsync utility,

check the internal name then look for that name in Photoshop

 

I renamed this profile in the finder to: '39-47 renamed.icc',

You can see that in the header of the utility below,

you can also see in "desc' that the internal name is still "39-47.icc":

 

 

I hope this helps
neil barstow, colourmanagement net :: adobe forum volunteer:: co-author: 'getting colour right'
google me "neil barstow colourmanagement" for lots of free articles on colour management

TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
August 7, 2022

Good point about the names. But I highly suspect it's something else as the OP sees the profiles in Photoshop but not LR which is a head-scratcher. I've heard of issues with missing profiles in the past, but they were missing in all Adobe products if memory serves me. 

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
August 7, 2022

One other idea came to mind; is there any difference with the check box on and off (Toggle)? 

 

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
Conrad_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 7, 2022

Has Full Disk Access been granted to Lightroom Classic? I’m not sure that is a correct answer; I’m trying to think of what could block printer profiles from being seen by Lightroom Classic.

 

Because those profiles should work fine…an hour ago I printed from Lightroom Classic 11.4.1 in macOS 12.5 Monterey on Apple Silicon, on my Epson 3880 using the Epson Premium Luster profile.

GoldingD
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August 6, 2022
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August 6, 2022

Hi, 

I newly upgraded to Mac Studio running Monterey OS 12.5. Profiles are stored in Color Sync folder for both the root HD and the user.  The printer is Epson 3880. All profiles, including canned and custom appear and are available in the Photoshop print dialog. However, only the canned profiles appear and are availble in Lightroom. I've tried renaming them and have deleted and reinstalled the printer. Nothing helps. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
August 6, 2022

What do you mean “only the canned profiles appear and are availble in Lightroom.”

What profiles are not available in LR that are in PS?

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
Per Berntsen
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 7, 2022

@Per Berntsen wrote:

On Windows there's a Color Profiles folder for LR in the user account, and I imagine it's the same on a Mac.

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Color Profiles

 

I've had success putting ICC profiles there that LR refused to display. This was for soft proofing, but I think they will show up for printing as well. (I don't print from Lightroom)

 


On my Mac, that folder only contains.DCP profiles:

/Users/thedigitaldog/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Color Profiles

Never an issue here with ICC profiles in the folder on Mac they can reside in the OP is using. 

Maybe it's an M1 issue, that I'm not running this hardware; if LR can't see these profiles (but PS can), it's a new LR bug. 


This folder is empty by default on Windows. (just checked my laptop, where I haven't added any profiles)

I believe DCP profiles were stored in the user account previously, but they have been moved to a new location –

C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles