Comments on: Tutorial: Presets, In Depth – Part One: Installing and Reading Presets

By: nguyen

nguyen — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:00:22 +0000

Open Explorer and type % Appdata%. Chose…….

By: nicoe

nicoe — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:18:11 +0000

thanks for answering. Would be great to have a simpler solution in the future. right now i take the file-search function to solve the issue.
perhaps, in the meantime, it would be a nice bonus if you would ship the files like you dit and add some zip-files with pure importdata for a quick import. just a suggestion.

By: nicoe

nicoe — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:16:47 +0000

@Michael W. Gray thanks for answering. Would be great to have a simpler solution in the future. right now i take the file-search function to solve the issue. perhaps, in the meantime, it would be a nice bonus if you would ship the files like you dit and add some zip-files with pure importdata for a quick import. just a suggestion.

By: Michael W. Gray

Michael W. Gray — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:14:45 +0000

The reason for the folder structure is that each folder represents an individual product. With the Cold Storage presets, I placed each emulation into their own folder to separate them, as some of my early testers vocalized a preference for that.

I know it can be confusing, but we are trying to get this all cleaned up with our XeL and CPP preset platforms. I’m glad you got everything working, but we offer a lot of presets in the big box. Without the folders it gets quite muddled.

If Lightroom offered nested folders for presets this would not be an issue, but for now we are stuck with one level of folders.

By: nicole

nicole — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:28:37 +0000

Dear x-equals,
first of all: your bigbox is great! But importing the settings is a little complicated because of the folder structure of your bundle. Or did I miss something? The way you delivered the presets you have to import one after the ohter. My workaround on the pc was, that i used the *.lrtemplate-search function to get rid of the folder structure. Than copied all files in a new folder and imported all of them with one import-order. Is this the way you have to do it or is there a better way?

By: Leslie

Leslie — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:22:52 +0000

Thank you so much. I was going crazy all day today trying
to figure this out.

By: Michael W. Gray

Michael W. Gray — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:52:40 +0000

Okay, this can be annoying. First you need to change you file and folder settings for Windows Explorer. In Windows 7, click the Organize button in the ribbon and select Folder and search options. From here, click on the View tab. Look in the box for a folder icon saying Hidden files and folders, beneath it make sure the radio button labelled Show hidden files, folders and drives is selected and not Don't show hidden files, folders and drives. Click OK and you have gotten that part taken care of. Now navigate to root on your Windows install drive (usually C:) and select the Users folder. Then select the folder with your username as its title. Once in that folder you should now see AppData at the top of the folder contents. It will be translucent, as it is a hidden folder normally for some awful reason. From here, the rest of the path should be as listed. 9 times out of 10, it is the hidden folders not being visible that leads to problems installing presets on Vista and 7. I never, ever have hidden files or folders on my Windows PC's, so I neglected to mention that fact.

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:17:56 +0000

I used to have Windows XP and this was exactly the way I installed presets into ACR. I just got Windows7.
I don’t have the AppData listed under C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\Settings.
There is no such path….do you know why there woudn’t be? I’m going crazy trying to install my presets!
I can go to C:Program Files (x86)\Adobe\….then either to Adobe Bridge or Photoshop…but there is no Camera Raw!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:30:56 +0000

No wasted time writing, thank you!!