Along the same lines as in part V (maybe a tad bit less annoying, but still quite up there) is the disappearing of exporting presets.
I use the export function out of Lightroom extensively and I made some custom user presets for exporting files, with or without post-processing actions in Photoshop.
Lightroom screenshot
And the same thing happens here as it does with the metadata presets.
As soon as you change catalogs the user presets are gone. “Luckily” the last used information is kept in the fields, so you can salvage at least one of your presets, but all the other ones you will have to redo.
Lightroom screenshot
The ones that are “hard wired” in the system will stay. The post-processing actions for example, they are still there. But those are actual physical files on the hard drive. Apparently these user customized export presets aren’t. They seem to be temporary files attached to the currently opened catalog.
Arno!
mate, how ya be . . .
as far as I know they are files, that unfortunately seem to need to be hand copied from CAT to CAT . . . but this appears to be fine to do “in batch” outside of Lightroom
For example, on my MAC, the path to these user export presets is:
/Catalogues/LR_catalogues/Falls_2008/Lightroom Settings/Export Presets/User Presets/*.lrtemplate
So I just copy them to new CAT’s and it seems to work? . . . still a need for manual work and I hate that cause I’m lazy.
Peace from the bottom of the world,
Thomas