Using Same Catalog on Two Machines, But Presets Are Missing on One

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June 17, 2025
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I store my presets with my catalog, and that catalog is on an external drive that I switch up between my desktop and laptop when I'm traveling.

All the presets show when using my desktop, but when I use my laptop and pull up the same catalog, a good amount of the presets are missing. If I import them again while using the laptop, then when I plug the harddrive back into my desktop, they appear twice.

How can I get them to be consistent between machines? I thought that was the whole point of storing them with the catalog, but maybe I'm missing a step somewhere?

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C.Cella

Inspiring

@tstockard

Which presets?

Develop Presets, Metadata Presets, Filter Presets, etc...?

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CMass

Community Manager

Hey @tstockard,

Ideally, you wouldn't want to have a catalog on an external hard drive, I'm assuming you're asking about Develop Presets. If so, are those located on your main computer and not your laptop?

^CM

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tstockardAuthor

Inspiring

Why not? I travel a lot and work on a desktop at home and I need to have access to the same catalog wherever it is that I am working. The presets are located in the catalog, which is on the external drive that I access from both machines. I used to store the presets on both machines, but making sure both machines had the same set up every time I changed something was becoming pretty tedious, so I switched to storing the presets with the catalog.

And yes, develop presets, sorry about that, I didn't think to specify.

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