![]() ![]() ![]() If there is just one preset you want to back up, one method would be to export it as an. Remember to back up your presets on a regular basis – any time you have created or downloaded another preset so you will be up-to-date and won’t lose any of them. Right click and select Paste.Īnother option is instead of opening up the Lightroom folder, right click on it, select Copy and then browse to your backup drive and Paste it there. Create a folder called “Backup of Lightroom Presets” or any name you want to give it. Now browse to either your second internal hard drive or your external hard drive to where you want to save them. Step 4: Paste the Presets on Your Backup Drive If you are going to email the presets to yourself or want to keep them all together, you can right click on the selected folders and send them to a zip folder. You can hit Ctrl + A to select all the folders and right click and select Copy. There you will find all folders for all your presets, watermark, templates and other Lightroom folders. This will open the folder where Lightroom, by default, saves its presets : C:UsersAppDataRoamingAdobeLightroom. In the Location section, click on the Show Lightroom Presets folder button. Go to Edit>Preferences which will open the Preferences dialog box.Ĭlick on the Presets tab. When you import presets, Lightroom always saves them to the same folder – the Lightroom presets folder. Fortunately Lightroom does not keep it a mystery. The next step is to find where Lightroom stores all your important files. Step 2: Locate Your Presets on Your Hard Drive Having at least one copy of your data off-site is also highly recommended. Just be sure you store them separate from your computer so that if your computer crashes, you can still retrieve them. Put it on an external hard drive, email the files to yourself, put it in Dropbox or Google Drive, etc. To be sure that your backed up files will not be lost, be sure that you put them on something other than your computer. Step 1: Decide How Where to Put Your Backed Up Presets This will also help when you purchase new laptop and need to configure and personalize Lightroom to get you up and running and back editing. And it’s when you are putting your life back together on the new laptop that it suddenly hits you – what happened to all my Lightroom presets? They’re gone! If only I had backed them up!įortunately backing up your Lightroom presets is easy. Don’t get lulled into thinking it can’t happen to you. That’s when you suddenly realize that all your important documents, your only copy of all your photos, your never-can-be-replaced information is on that hard drive. Or even better, the dreaded BSOD – known commonly as the Blue Screen of Death! There is nothing more devastating or sickening then to turn on your laptop and have nothing happens – no lights, no Windows splash screen, no Windows chime. ![]()
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