VSCO film pack preset profiles missing after Lightroom 7.3 upgrade

Hi,

It seems you're encountering issues with VSCO camera profiles in Lightroom following the 7.3 upgrade. This is a common problem. To address it, you can try the following steps:

Reinstall the VSCO Film Pack Presets to potentially restore the missing camera profiles.

Make sure you have the latest version of Lightroom installed, as updates often contain bug fixes and improved compatibility.

In Lightroom's "Develop" module, navigate to the "Basic" panel, scroll down to the "Profile" section, and attempt to re-sync your VSCO profiles by checking and unchecking them.

If the issue persists, consider contacting VSCO's customer support for more tailored assistance regarding their presets and profiles.

These steps should help resolve the problem and restore the functionality of your VSCO camera profiles in Lightroom.

VSCO MISSING PROFILE FIX!

first a little background - i've been running my LR on two computers via an external hardrive for years. In my LR catalogue I use the "store presets with catalogue" option. This way all my presets SHOULD be accessible no matter what LR I use or what computer I use .

A little over a year ago I had one and only one of my adjusted VSCO presets (my most used black and white preset) stop working on my desktop computer. When I'd use it it would be flat and dull - when I opened the LR catalogue on my laptop and would use the same preset it would be fine! After updating both my LR's it said that the profile was missing on my desktop computer but not on my laptop. Which I had no idea what that really meant and am still not 100% sure since I'm not a computer wiz.

After spending hours of very frustrating research with zero success I finally got everything working today. Without knowing much about why this all worked all I can do is tell you what I finally did to fix it all which is an amalgamation of a bajillion fixes I came across through my research today -

1) Make sure your computer systems are matching - I'm running High Sierra V 10.13.5

2) Make sure your LR Classic CC's are both up to date and matching*

3) Make sure your Photoshop CC versions are both up to date and matching* this was key for me!

4) Redownload your VSCO presets

5) Make sure you do have Mac: Macintosh HD / Users / [your username] / Library / Application Support / Adobe / CameraRaw / CameraProfiles / [your VSCO Preset Pack Folder should be here along with any other downloaded 3rd party preset]

** I didn't have the Library folder in my username I did have a Library folder with similar if not almost matching folder structures directly in the Mac HD folder so I thought that was the correct one originally (if you don't see the Library folder it is most likely hidden follow the suggestions on this page to find it! Access hidden Mac OS library files

6) If all of this is aligned, reopen LR - when I did mine prompted me saying that some user permissions weren't being granted? (never saw it before) but I clicked on the learn more link and it sent me to this useful page which I followed the instructions for ( I had to do this on both my desktop AND laptop)

link --> Solutions to Adobe Lightroom Lightroom user permission issues on launch

Once I did all of this I relaunched my LR on my laptop, everything seemed to be working fine, so I made a new test preset and saved it. Then I launched LR on my desktop via the external harddrive and voila all my preset profiles were there (nothing missing) and the preset I had just made on my laptop was there too! Everything seems to be fine! I went and made sure that I could access Mac: Macintosh HD / Users / [your username] / Library / Application Support / Adobe / CameraRaw / CameraProfiles /

and sure enough all my preset packs had their own folders with their corresponding .dcp files (which I couldn't find anywhere before)

I'm not sure if when I updated the Photoshop or updated the High Sierra to the latest version it created this new Camera Raw folder structure (my desktop was running 10.13.4 and my laptop was on 10.13.5 at the time of the issue) - but either way it's all set now and I really really hope this works for ya'll!

Best!
Sarah

Is there a way to more these profiles (on the right) and not presets? (on the left?)

That's an issue with VSСО support. They're mainly in community management these days rather than in products.

Personally I still shoot both film and digital, and for film simulation these days I mainly use RNI's film presets. RNI Films CC - 01 their last package and it's fully profile based. As for the quality – it's just second to none. Their simulation of Portra is a pure magic, as good as it can be.

I have the exact same problem with my VSCO profiles. Every time I launch Lightroom it wants to convert my presets and rename them. It says: "Error: the following presets could not be renamed" with a list of all the presets. I've read this thread a couple of times but can't manage to find a way how to fix this. Can anyone try to explain me how I can get my profiles working again? Thank you!

I experience the same problem but ONLY when I apply a VSCO preset that has a camera specific profile within the preset.

For example, I have both Olympus and Canon and Standard film presets. No issue if the Oly is applied to Oly. But if I apply Oly to say Pentax, I get the error about the missing profile.

Looking in the presets, I see this for a standard VSCO film preset:

crs:CameraProfile="Adobe Standard"

Looking in my Olympus specific film presets I see this:

crs:CameraProfile="Kodak Gold 100 - O"

And that in fact is the profile for my Olympus cameras, and only shows for those cameras. Just like how my Colorchecker Passport dcp-now profiles show for each camera they're assigned to.

I'm having the same exact problem with all of my presets. Also, I often shoot with a Fuji X100F, and I used to be able to expand the Profile list and select various Fuji film simulations. This option is now gone as well. Something appears to be broken or wrong with this update, and it's making my post-production edits very difficult! Please update me with a solution!

Any chance you are applying the vsco preset to a photo from a newer camera? I had the same thing happen, and then I realized it was photo from my newest camera. I went to vsco's website and downloaded the latest version of the preset pack, and then worked.

It may be that your VSCO profiles are in the wrong location. Below is guidance published by Adobe on release day. Hopefully, it solves your issue.

DCP profiles (such as those created by XRite Passport, the Adobe DNG Profile Creator, as well as 3rd parties like VSCO, RNI, etc.) will all need to go into the user profile location:

Mac: Macintosh HD / Users / [your username] / Library / Application Support / Adobe / CameraRaw / CameraProfiles /

Windows: C: \ Users \ [your username] \ AppData \ Roaming \ Adobe \ CameraRaw \ CameraProfiles \