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alexlindley
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October 29, 2019
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How can I delete custom profiles from Lightroom CC?

  • October 29, 2019
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Hi,

I've been searching for an answer to this question but I can't find anything useful.

I added a demo pack of RNI Films 5 profiles and they now appear in the profiles list within Lightroom CC as seen in this screen shot:


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How do I delete those RNI Films profiles from my Lightroom CC account?

I've tried right click but it just gives me the option to hide.

I've tried the Manage Profiles option but again I can only hide them.

I've tried deleting them from the following directory:

/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/Settings/

 

There doesn't seem to be a way to get rid of them in Lightroom CC, does anyone know if this is possible or have Adobe overlooked this one?

 

The reason I want to delete them is because when I use Lightroom on my iPhone or iPad they are not hidden and there is no option to hide them even if i've selected to hide them in Lightroom CC on my MacBook.

 

Thanks
Alex

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    Correct answer JohanElzenga

    Have to tried right-clicking on the individual profiles? That should give you the option to delete them. When you delete the last one from a group, the group will be deleted too. Profiles are stored in the cloud, so there is no local folder to delete them from.

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    Anonymous
    August 1, 2024

    I am having trouble deleting profiles from Lightroom Mobile. Although I can successfully remove profiles using the desktop app, these changes are not syncing with my mobile devices. As of August 1, 2024, is there a solution to this issue?

    unkai
    unkai
    New Participant
    November 29, 2022

    On a Mac, Quit Lightroom CC if open, then in Finder, search for a directory named `cr_cameraprofiles`. Mine was located inside my `Lightroom Library.lrlibrary`, in a folder named with a hash (`9dc699...etc`  - the name of our directory will be different.) `cr_cameraprofiles` contains all custom profiles I've used or created. Delete the files you no longer want. Relaunch Lightroom. Enjoy clutter free profile list. ❤️

     

    Theo5D34
    Theo5D34
    New Participant
    November 30, 2022

    Thank you. I've done that and they indeed get deleted from Lightroom CC desktop. They are still on my Lightroom mobile on my iPhone and on Lightroom cloud version. Do you know how I can remove them from my phone ?

     

    thanks in advance 

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    michele stapleton
    Known Participant
    November 15, 2021

    I just made a profile and I looked at the path to the folder where the new profile was saved:  MacPro>iMac>Users>Me>Library>Application Support>Adobe>CameraRaw>CameraProfiles. I found all the old colorchecker passport profiles there. Dragged them to the trash. Emptied the trash. Closed LRC. Relaunched LRC.  My custom profiles window in lightroom is now clean of all those old profiles that I needed for only one job.

     

    FWIW, if you think you might have to go back into an old job and rework a file, maybe you should take the profile for that job and save it in the job folder?  Or save, the photo you took of the colorchecker so you can run a new profile next time you use those images?

    JohanElzenga
    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    November 15, 2021

    Michelle,

    Please read the whole thread. This is about Lightroom, not about Lightroom Classic.

     

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
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    Dave5C8D
    New Participant
    May 30, 2021

    I am running Lightroom CC on Win10 and my custom camera profiles are *.dcp files created with Xrite’s ColorChecker Camera Calibration app.  The default folder suggested by ColorChecker is, as mentioned by others:

     

     Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles

     

    I override that destination folder and specify my desktop folder to save the *.dcp file.  From within Lightroom CC I import that *.dcp file, from my desktop, for my camera profiles.

     

    From that point on, Lightroom CC stores a duplicate *.dcp file in the following folder.  This is the is the file that is linked to the custom profiles shown on the Lightroom CC workspace:

     

    Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Lightroom CC\Data\<2d…hex char…400>\cr_cameraprofiles

     

    Delete the unwanted profiles from within this folder.

    ---- ---- ----

     

    You can also determine the path to the files shown above by searching the entire drive for *.dcp files.  This should identify the paths to the desktop copy as well as the program used copy.

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      Dave5C8D
      New Participant
      May 30, 2021

      This removes the profiles from Lightroom on my PC, iPad and iPhone concurrently.

      Theo5D34
      Theo5D34
      New Participant
      October 28, 2021

      I am trying to achieve the same but I use a Mac and I struggle to find where the profiles are stored in my Mac. My ultimate goal is to remove the profiles from my iPhone Lightroom mobile. So far it seems impossible but if your solution worked on a pc, I can't see why it wouldn't on a Mac. Any help to find the location of the profiles on my Mac would be much appreciated 

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      frankherzog
      Participating Frequently
      January 27, 2021

      Deleting profiles from Lightroom CC involves working in CAMERA RAW. Go to the profiles there, right click on the one you want to delete and a "delete" will show up in the box.  Click delete and it's gone BUT, you must shut down Lightroom and restart it for the change to be reflected there.

      JohanElzenga
      JohanElzenga
      Community Expert
      January 28, 2021

      Nope. That only applies to Lightroom Classic, not to Lightroom desktop. Lightroom desktop does not use these locally stored profiles, it saves its profiles in the cloud.

       

      -- Johan W. Elzenga
      JohanElzenga
      JohanElzenga
      Community Expert
      November 27, 2020

      Quite frankly I don't think that this has a very high priority at Adobe.

       

      -- Johan W. Elzenga
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        not_added
        New Participant
        November 27, 2020

        How so? Camera-accurate color profiles are a rather important feature, will they just leave it buggy for years?

        JohanElzenga
        JohanElzenga
        Community Expert
        November 28, 2020

        First of all, Lightroom desktop is aimed at a difference audience than Lightroom Classic, and I doubt there will be many people in that audience that create their own camera profiles. And secondly this is a minor bug anyway. The profiles aren't buggy, it's not that you can't use these kind of profiles. It's just that you can't delete a profile that you no longer need. That's not such a big deal (you can't delete the default profiles that you might never use either) and that is why I think it won't be high on the list of priorities.

         

        -- Johan W. Elzenga
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        not_added
        New Participant
        November 27, 2020

        Hi all, it's months later and it's still impossible to delete ColorChecker profiles from the cloud version of Lightroom. Does anyone have any news? Do the Lightroom devs even know this is an issue?

        johnk80054148
        johnk80054148
        New Participant
        September 25, 2020

        I found my ColorChecker Passport profiles here. I'm not sure, but your profiles could be in the same place. You can always run a search on your drive for *.dcp to see where they are if you still can't find them.

        C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles

         

        All the other "built-in" ones seem to be here:

        C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic\Resources\CameraProfiles\Camera

         

        * on a Windows system

        * I would not recomment deleting the "built-in" system profiles

          JohanElzenga
          JohanElzenga
          Community Expert
          September 25, 2020

          That's the location that Lightroom Classic and Camera Raw use. The OP was talking about Lightroom desktop however. Lightroom desktop stores profiles in the cloud.

           

          -- Johan W. Elzenga
          johnk80054148
          johnk80054148
          New Participant
          September 25, 2020

          Sorry about that. Yes, I was referring to Classic. My mistake.

          JohanElzenga
          JohanElzenga
          Community Expert
          August 14, 2020

          There seems to be a bug that custom camera profiles of the .dcp file format (camera profiles created by XRite ColorChecker Passport) are treated as default camera profiles and so they cannot be deleted. 

          -- Johan W. Elzenga
          Lakadima
          Lakadima
          New Participant
          August 2, 2020

          Has anyone figured this out?  I create custom profiles for my Color Checker Passport but am unable to delete them once I am done with them.  Currently using LR CC 3.3 and Mac OS Catalina.  Any help on how to delete these custom profiles I created and added would be appreciated.  

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