Windows-C: \ Users \ \ AppData \ Roaming \ Adobe \ CameraRaw \ Your Develop Defaults, Lens Defaults and Custom Point Curves are stored at... To find them easily on either platform, go to Preferences > Presets tab and press the Show Lightroom Presets Folder button. If you’ve checked the ‘Store presets with this catalog’ checkbox in Preferences, they’ll be stored next to your catalog file instead. Presets are cross-platform and are saved in a Lightroom-only format (.lrtemplate). Mac-Macintosh HD / Users / / Library / Application Support / Adobe / Lightroom /Įach type of preset has its own folder, for example Develop Presets, Filename Templates and Metadata Presets.
Windows-C: \ Users \ \ AppData \ Roaming \ Adobe \ Lightroom \ Personally, I drag that Library folder to the sidebar so that it’s always easily accessible. If you go to Finder, select the Go menu, and hold down the Opt key, you’ll see Library appear in the menu, and then you can navigate to the Preferences or Application Support folder. On OS X, the user Library folder is hidden by default. Bear in mind that those folders and files are hidden for good reason, so be careful if you decide to change these options. Then click Apply to implement your changes. Under the View tab, you may select ‘Show hidden files, folders, and drives,’ and I also like to uncheck ‘Hide Extensions for Known File Types’ as the extensions can be useful. If you want to always show the hidden files and system folders, open an Explorer window and go to Organize menu > Folder and Search Options. On Windows, you can open the Start menu and type %appdata%\Adobe\Lightroom in the Start menu search box and you’ll be taken directly to the Lightroom user folder. How do I show hidden files to find my preferences and presets?
#ADOBE LIGHTROOM 5 CATALOG MAC OS#
By default, Preferences are a hidden file on Windows and Mac OS X. Mac-Macintosh HD / Users / / Library / Preferences / Windows-C: \ Users \ \ AppData \ Roaming \ Adobe \ Lightroom \ Preferences \ Lightroom 5 Preferences.agprefs The default location of the Preferences is… The catalogs are fully cross platform, and the catalog file extensions are: Mac-Macintosh HD / Users / / Pictures / Lightroom / Lightroom 5 Catalog.lrcat Windows-C: \ Users \ \ My Pictures \ Lightroom \ Lightroom 5 Catalog.lrcat The default location of the Lightroom catalog is… refers to the name of your user account, for example, mine is called Vic. If your operating system is installed on a different drive, you may need to replace the drive letter/name on the file paths that are listed below. If you need to find Lightroom’s files at any time, you’ll need to know where to look, so here are the most popular Lightroom file locations.īy default, the boot drive is C:\ on Windows and Macintosh HD on Mac.