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Hi! I just bought a new computer (2020 iMac shipped with Catalina). On my old machine (2011 High Sierra), I was using Lightroom 6.0 desktop version (I don't use the cloud versions and am not interested in switching).
Since the new machine shipped with Catalina, the OS sadly cannot be downgraded. As such, I lost all the 32bit apps I relied on and was forced to upgrade everything to 64 bit versions (Catalina WON'T run Lightroom 6!), LR being chief among them.
Well, now all my presets are gone. I had them all backed up to a Dropbox folder in case something happened, but even in so trying to re-import them I am faced with a "The preset files was the wrong type of preset" error message.
What to do now?!
I am a full-time working pro photographer and now my whole workflow is basically a trash fire after 'upgrading' everything and I have clients waiting 😞
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Let me clarify that now the LR version I am running on Catalina is 9.4
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In addition to the info David he supplied you may wish to have and understanding of the changes made since Lr six.
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/whats-new-lightroom-classic-since-version-6/
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First issue, a change in how many presets LrC shows available.
It used to be Lightroom showed all installed presets. Adobe changed that, it shows default presets, not the remainder, until you tell it to do so.
In the Presets Panel, click on that + symbol, select Manage, click on those you want available.
Note, folder structure as presented is probably different than what you are used to.
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Thank you for your response.
Unfortuantely, there is nothing there to check outside of the built-in defaults... 😞
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What I'm seeing that the new default presets are .xmp, but all of my old ones I was using are .lrtemplate and none of them will import. Can they be converted somehow??
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They should haave conerted when you first started LrC
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I have opened and closed LR many times since the upgrade, and nothing has been converted or even recognized 😞
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I have been googling deep and hard for solutions to this and have tried 100 different things. Nothing is a go.
At this point I'd be interested to just roll back the version of LR I am using (if it's even possible) to something that use .lrtemplate instead of .xmp...but I don't know at what point (which version) this change occured. Anyone know?
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Looks like 7.3 is when they made this jump, but Creative Cloud is only giving me the option rollback to 8.2 at the oldest. This is a nightmare!