I really would like to be able to delete the develop presets that ships with LR3. I don't use them as they are in the way of my own presets when using the Library Module.
The ability to delete the default develop presets has been modified to allow you to hide them instead as of Version 7.4, We are closing this as implemented. We hope it helps keep your workspace tighter!
I'm no longer able to find the Develop presets. The folder used to be in the Lightroom > Develop Presets folder. It's not longer there. Now there are seven worthless folders at the top of the menu. They don't even allow multiple levels to help keep the presets organized. What's with this?
I never use the default Lightroom presets. Is it possible to delete them, or at least move them into one folder, to streamline what that panel looks like? I'm on a Mac.
This has been requested many times but Adobe has been adamant about keeping them hard coded. I guess they think we can’t live without them. For me, they just take up valuable screen space and are mostly useless.
Are you sure about that Jim? I remember doing this several years ago. You have to use an editor to edit one of the LR files. I'll look up the details if I can find them. The only problem is that the next update puts them back again, and you have to repeat the editing.
Yes it still works, but it is very tedious. You have to delete each preset one by one, I think. And you have to play around with Resource Hacker - I set it to win7 compatibility and admin mode - and change permissions on the develop.lrmodule file to allow writing to it.
One good reason for Adobe to allow the user to remove the preinstalled presets is performance. In Adobe own "Performance tips" link Optimize Lightroom performance the following is stated!
This is really strange we can't delete them without going under the hood. I never use any supplied presets for anything, it's just taking up valuable real-estate in my workflow.
After some sniffing, snooping and digging, in Lightroom 7.3 it is now indeed possible to delete the default Develop presets, and the default new profiles as well (personally, I have zero use for any of the modern, vintage etc. presets that look just like Instagram filters - who's still using those anyway?:-))
On Windows, the files are in two locations: one for
Lightroom (the presets) and one for ACR (the profiles). Both locations contain both the presets and the profiles, but it seems that Lightroom pulls the profiles from the ACR location too. I zapped
everything that I found superfluous from both locations while Lightroom wsa not running, then started
Lightroom, and they’re gone. YAY!
So, WARNING: Restarting Lightroom does indeed not restore these files, so make sure to make a BACKUP of the files before you delete anything. I’m not responsible if you wreak havoc on your installation.
That said, the two locations on my Windows 7 64bit system are:
Rather than hack into the program files, I suggest you launch Adobe Camera Raw and go to its Presets tab. You can hide groups of presets there, and AFAICS those settings are reflected in Lightroom.
Nope. In the C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\Settings are ONLY the added additional templates as XMP files. The default 14 in question don't seem to be there. 😉