Exporting and Importing Presets - where has it gone?

[nealbridgens]

I'm just trying to move my workspaces from one computer to another. As it has always* been with Adobe, they've made it as difficult as possible. 

The help page:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preset-migration.html?x-product=Helpx%2F1.0.0&x-product-loca...

says: "SOURCE COMPUTER: On the computer that has the presets you want to migrate, do the following:

1. Open Photoshop.
2. Choose Edit > Presets > Export/Import Presets."

But of course, that menu item doesn't exist in 25.13.0 (beta) on the Mac or 25.12.0.

So I assume I'm back to chasing around in user libraries?
Why can't Adobe make this a feature? Or have they hidden some new cloud solution somewhere and I (and the help files) just don't know about it

Thanks for reading my ranting. And sorry for the exasperation. 

*Since version 3.0. Swear to god.  They had "Preset Syncing" for two minutes but that's discontinued.

[jane-e]

@nealbridgens 

Apologies for not seeing your post for two days. I'm not sure if you read to the bottom of the link you posted?

"To move these settings to a new installation, copy these files from the following path on the source installation to the same path on the target installation:

Mac:<Username>/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop <version> Settings

I can't remember if the Library file off your user name is hidden. If so, show your hidden files.

Does this help?

Jane

[nealbridgens]

Thanks Jane.

That does help. Thank you.

But really, this shouldn't involve having to hunt around in hidden folders. Particularly when you see just how many of these folder trails of old photoshop preferences (or used to be "preference panes") I have and they have chosen different paths in the past. 
It bothers me that Adobe hasn't found a user-friendly way to just make it easily shareable. Or that they did find a way and then abandoned it (Preset Syncing) and whatever this non-existent  "Export/Import Presets" command was supposed to do.

I mostly made this post because when I found that error in the help files it was my hope that Adobe had solved the problem in some new creative cloud way rather than just abandoned yet another solution. Foolish hope on my part.

[jane-e]

You're welcome @nealbridgens. 

I also used and loved Creative Cloud Synced files and was sorry to see it removed. Now I'm using DropBox and/or WeTransfer. Here is the Help file from Adobe:

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/creative-cloud/kb/eol-creative-cloud-synced-files.html

I've enabled "Show Hidden Files" on the first day every time I get a new Mac, which is why I couldn't remember with certainty if this particular library was hidden. Apple is the one who decided to hide these files, and my guess is that they need to be hidden from users who are not tech savvy. As I understand it, the OS wants certain files to be in certain places.

https://www.macworld.com/article/671158/how-to-show-hidden-files-on-a-mac.html

"It bothers me that Adobe hasn't found a user-friendly way to just make it easily shareable"

How do you envision this?

Jane

[nealbridgens]

Well, I'll be damned...

Admitidly it's from InDesign, but a win is a win..