Local Adjustments folder vs Local Corrections folder

[camner]

Lightroom Version

12.1

Operating System

1. macOS 12 Monterey

I never paid much attention to preset locations because I didn't use very many (either Develop or Local Adjustment), and I still don't.

I was poking around in the folder tree beneath .../Application Support/Adobe (I am on a Mac), and found theses two folders:

/Users/me/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Local Adjustment Presets /VFLO
/Users/robertcamner/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/Local Corrections

The contents of these two folders are almost identical, except that the files in the first folder are .lrtemplate files, all the files in the second folder are .xmp files, and the second folder also contains two additional files: index.dat and index2.dat.

My first thought was that the contents of the Local Corrections folder are the presets from the first folder that were converted to .xmp files back a few versions ago. But I'm not sure I'm right about that, because there are other .lrtemplate files (some inside subfolders and some not) in the Local Adjustment Presets folder that do not have counterparts in the Local Corrections folder.

Can someone explain those two folders purposes?

(And, what are the index.dat and index2.dat files in the second folder?)

 

[Johan Elzenga]

Local Adjustment Presets are not shared between Lightroom and Camera Raw, so the first folder contains Lightroom presets and the second folder contains ACR presets.

 

[camner]

Local Adjustment Presets are not shared between Lightroom and Camera Raw, so the first folder contains Lightroom presets and the second folder contains ACR presets.

Interesting. So only develop presets are shared between Lightroom and Camera Raw, yes?

Can local adjustment presets (in Lightroom) have a folder structure?

Also, do I presume correctly that the following are built-in (to LR) Local Adjustment Presets? They don't appear in the Local Adjustment Presets folder.

Some of them don't seem to move any of the sliders. Is there anyway to hide or delete them?

 

[Rob_Cullen]

So only develop presets are shared between Lightroom and Camera Raw, yes?

Yes.

Can local adjustment presets (in Lightroom) have a folder structure?

No. Best you can do is give them names that will sort alpha/numeric below the default list.
And there is no way to hide the default Presets. (I am annoyed as you are by several that do not do anything whatsoever!)

 

[Johan Elzenga]

Yes, only develop presets are shared. And no, you cannot have a hierarchical menu. Lightroom comes with a number of default presets, as you noted. You can’t change/hide/remove these. They are inside the Lightroom package, because all users on your computer must be able to use them.