Moving Lightroom Presets to a NEW Computer

Thanks again Anthony. One note - I compressed the file and copied it to an external drive. When I tried to import the presets from the external drive, nothing happens. I finally just copied the zip folder to the desktop of the new computer and then it imported just fine. One would think..........but sometimes its better to just not think, but follow instructions instead.

LMAO mac user

I recently purchased a used imac 27, 2019 build and installed Sanoma 14.5. Then installed Photoshop CC and Lightroom CC 2024. When I right click on a preset nothing happens. My problem is that I somehow installed over 300 B/W presets into the User Preset folder and I can't figure out how to remove them. When installing the macos I installed it into an internal 128SSD.

Still not getting my Export presets and my Filter Preset that Hides all Rejects so I can select only the ones I want to export. I am not sure how I created these so I want to copy them over from my old system. I am using a PC.

What is the best way to copy the compressed preset file from old to new computers? Do I need to move them to an external or can I share through the cloud?

the new lightroom classic doesnt show "show in finder" whel rightclicking the presets, and the path shown in this video is simply empty, doesnt show the bunch of presets i want to install on the new computer. anyone know how to migrate all these? quite a heaache

hey I can't find my presets in imported settings

Thank you again for your good information
You told that you have the LR-catalogue in Dropbox. I did that also. But after some problems, Adobe said: "you should not have your catalogue in the cloud" because it syncs all the time. Do you have the right answer?
I hope soo
With regards
Krijn

Thank you, very helpful! My work flow isthat I want to do the editing on my MBP M1 Max but it got limited HD capacity so after Im finished, I want to transfer these images to my stationary computer and also bring the editing info to that other computer so I don´t need to start over again on the second stationary computer. Can you tell me if there is a simple way to move the specific editing information for a specific photo shoot, such as a folder? Maybe there is a possibility to use Adobes cloud service to sync these automatically from the beginning? please help!

Thank You! This will save me a lot frustration especially if it works with profiles. I shoot infrared and use profiles/presets to precess them. Working with both desktop and laptop is a nightmare if they don't both have exactly the same profiles and presets.

Hi, so in windows it is the same show in explorer, but you can see immediately the path in the address bar ( or when you click on it it if it was not set to show the full path by default, then it shows the full path and you can copy it and paste to another explorer window). What I found recently and it looks very easy and helpful is in the preferences under the presets tab there is an option to "STORE PRESETS WITH THIS CATALOG" so it saves them in the same folder as the catalog so you just sync that folder to google drive or dropbox whatever and all your presets and catalog(s) are backed up and you know always where to find them ;)

Great video..But i would like to know is if you have LRC and PS on your computers hard drive (trying to save space) (how) can you move one or both of those programs to an external HD without any photo or preset loss? and will my computer recognize it on the external HD.

QQQ: Can we not store all the presets on the external drive and import from there? That seems easier than copying from old computer (which may have died).

Always a good topic that we only need every 7 or 8 years. Adobe needs to figure out an easier way to do this. Use to, when you did a major update, presets wouldn't come over, but now they do thank goodness.