Reset Preferences

One way to troubleshoot issues in Lightroom Classic is to reset preferences. By resetting preferences, you start Lightroom with a clean slate, which can often resolve various issues or simply give you a fresh start with your settings.

Restore preferences to default settings

Presets

When you attempt to restore Preferences and the Store presets with your catalog option are selected, Lightroom Classic will not point to the presets stored with the catalog. As a result, it may appear that you've lost your presets, but they are still stored with the catalog. 

To resolve this, do one of the following:

• Disable Store presets with your catalog. If you've already restored Preferences, then enable this setting.
  
• Copy the contents in the Lightroom Settings folder to the following folder:
  • macOS:  Macintosh HD/Users/<user name>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Camera Raw/Settings
    
  • Windows:  C:\users\<user name>\appdata\roaming\Adobe\Camera Raw\Settings
    

Plugins and Plugin Settings

Plugins might go missing after one restores Preferences. To avoid this, store the plugins in the following folder:

• macOS: Macintosh HD/Users/<user name>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules
• Windows: C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Modules

Publish plugin settings do not reset as they are stored with the catalog, however, any other plugin settings or presets will be restored to default. Any missing plugin will need to be added to Lightroom Classic after restoring Preferences.

Use any one of the following methods to restore Lightroom Classic preferences to their default settings:

Method 1: Use keyboard shortcut

Method 2: Manually delete the preferences file

Method 3: Reset all Preferences and Relaunch

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