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How to delete presets in Lightroom cc (New cloud base version circa 2018)

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April 16, 2018
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I am having trouble deleting presets from Lightroom. I know how to do it on the classic version, but there is no right click feature, no tab in the preferences, and nowhere to find them in your library in the folders on your computer.

Correct answer selondon

Seems to be working for me, does using ctrl + click (or whatever) on the keyboard work instead?

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jameswp123

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Hi all, as a novice I uploaded some purchased presets into lightroom, followed a YouTube video to get them into Lightroom mobile. They were working fine but then vanished! I’ve been desperately trying to add them again, now I have many duplicates in desktop version I can’t delete, and they will not come what may appear in my mobile app version. I can’t right click as I am on a MacBook with a track pad. Can someone please explain in simple terms how on earth this can be fixed, this seems utterly mad And a collossal waste of time. They just will not appear in my mobile app. I’ve even deleted all apps to start fresh and still not working

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bennivh

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Right click on the preset group > Manage Presets... > Uncheck the groups you do not want to see. That's the simplest way!

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vicalysky

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Hi guys,

So I found how to delete them! They're stored in

C:\Users\....\AppData\Local\Adobe\Lightroom CC\Data\80e677b6f914477fb1af708af843425f\cr_settings

When you open it you should find .XMP files, delete them (it won't affect native presets) and restart Lightroom, all your presets will be deleted! It works if you select just some of them tho

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txshooter

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I found out the hard way that deleting presets manually by removing from the cr_settings folder in the Lightroom CC lrlibrary package is a bad idea. That will remove them from the local instance of Lightroom CC but it does NOT remove them from the cloud. I had imported a bunch of presets from Lightroom Classic and somehow those got all munged up in the User preset folder of Lightroom CC. I had 18,000 presets with useless cryptic names and I decided to clear them all out. I thought the fastest way would be to wipe out the cr_settings contents and it seemed to work until I found that my iPad and iPhone persisted in showing the deleted presets. Adobe support confirmed my presets were still in the cloud and the desktop Lightroom CC ceased to sync with them. The only way Adobe recommends to remove presets is to delete them individually or by right-click and delete the group (which won't work for default presets.) To get rid of my presets I had to uninstall Lightroom CC on my desktop, rename the .lrlibrary catalog, reinstall Lightroom CC, wait for sync to complete, then right-click and delete my User preset group. I then had to uninstall/reinstall the mobile apps to get everything back in sync. Bottom line, Lightroom CC doesn't handle modification of data outside the user interface.

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kimmiLouise

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I have been trying to find out how to delete them and start again - turns out they are stored in the Lightroom Library which is in your pictures folder. You can then right click the file to show package contents then I think they are in the CR_Settings folder...

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saandeep1705

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Thank you. This did the trick. Just a caution though...make sure to backup the files before deleting them. It deleted all the presets in the Lightroom Cloud app and the ones on the Lightroom Classic were intact. Just what I needed. Now I can only install those presets that I need to sync with Cloud.

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precy494

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I also am having the same issue. I was stupid and downloaded a 900 PRESET BUNDLE and i dont even like half of them. Ofcourse when I try to individually delete them, it wants me to verify if i want to delete each and every time, so thats not really an option (would literally take hours to do). It does not show "View in finder" at all when I right click an individual preset either.

Leica_user

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OK;Try the following way:

<home folder>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/

here my screen

right click-> delete

juergh12393364

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Thanks so much.

But on my mac i don't have this folder.

I have the latest Macbook Pro and the latest LR Version.

Geee, why the heck did they change this.

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MelissaLA88

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hi, mik_dav,

I don't seem to be having any issues. Simply opening the area within Lightroom CC where the presets are located, right click, and delete. I'm on a mac with trackpad only, so I right click with ctrl + click.

Here is a screenshot: