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Lightroom Classic 7.3: Develop presets not sorting correctly
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used to be sorted alphabetically. In version 7.3 the order is random
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JeffreyTranberry
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Johan W. Elzenga,
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nathan_johnson_3lteqs2eyjmws
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Inside an .lrtemplate file, there are two name properties... "internalName" and "title"... when you initially create a preset file, they are both the same. But it is possible for the "title" to become different than the "internalName" (especially for preset developers who are editing .lrtemplate files directly).
Example of .lrtemplate file:
So here, I must have changed the title directly in a text editor.
In any case, this didn't matter, because ALL PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF LIGHTROOM only looked at the "title" property to determine how to sort presets.
Enter LR Classic 7.3 and the .xmp conversion...
XMP also has a number of properties related to the name of the preset. The "Name" property is the displayed name...
BUT... XMP has a "SortName" property. And this property determines how Lightroom actually sorts the presets.
When LR 7.3 converted .lrtemplate files to .xmp files, it took the "internalName" and placed it in the "SortName" property...
Example...
AND unlike all previous lightroom versions, the .xmp presets actually do get sorted by the sortName property...
So now, inside Lightroom Classic, you see presets that are mostly sorted, but with seemingly random deviations from that sorting...
All that to say, I wish that Adobe hadn't assumed that we wanted the internalName to now be used a sorting device (which it never had been before). But I don't think it is cool that now we have the ability to do custom orders without changing the display name!
Now... I've got a lot of presets to update...
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shai_bachar
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NEW update NEW PROBLEMS. Hi Adobe. now what? new updated ruined the order of my presets and it's all mess now. instead of improving your slowing Classic CC, you're adding unnecessary presets of your own. I've never thought I'd consider working with other application.
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charles_putnam
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matthew_baldon
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...Oh, this is going to be SO MUCH FUN!!! THANKS ADOBE!
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jenny_lens_45b8db7uc90ry
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That will NEVER work. Allow us to import a folder as we did in the past. We cannot work with hundreds of presets in the User Folder. Did Adobe do any beta testing on this?
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