Ensuring that all Lightroom files are backed up
I'm currently dealing with a few issues with my PC, and it may be that I'll need to have it repaired, which might mean that I'll need to re-install applications such as LR once it's been fixed. I therefore want to ensure that all of my files are protected.
I currently have a solid system for backing up my photo files, so there are no problems there, and I also make regular backups of the catalogue to a seperate drive, so again I have no concerns with losing the catalogue itself. I also keep a backup of the preferences file, just in case I need to trash the one in use so I can then easily recover by replacing it with my copy. The one missing link is that I don't really make any backups of the various presets (having said this, Windows does back them up on a monthly basis).
I figure that, if I need to do a clean re-install, I can drop my prefs file into the relevant folder, overwriting the current one, and that I would just need to have a copy of the presets folder and do the same thing with that... Is my thinking correct here?
When I say presets, I don't just means ones in Develop, I mean things like settings for print templates, export presets, etc. I really don't want to risk losing these and having to set them all up again from scratch.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
M
Yes, the LR user presets of all kinds are stored under the same single location, which can be bodily backed up and later restored. This may include some items belonging to other Adobe applications. The standard factory set of Develop and Export profiles etc, should as far as I know be taken care of by the LR software installation.
I'd also mention any camera calibration profiles you may have downloaded / tweaked / generated yourself; also any lens profiles you have downloaded / tweaked / generated, which live in a different place (similarly shared across LR and ACR if that is present). Also the associated graphic files of any watermarks, layout overlays etc; and any printer etc output profiles you have collected and loaded into your operating system.
Printer drivers often provide a way to save named settings internally, which may represent a lot of invested time and experiment; it is probably worth grabbing those too.
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