Comments on: What Happens When You Reset Preferences?

By: Matt O'Brien

Matt O'Brien — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 13:20:15 +0000

I should add….. that I have been very critical of Adobe in relation to the usability of Lr and Ps in the past. However, I have noticed a considerable level of effort has been applied in the last 18 months or so, by Adobe, in dealing with a massive backlog of under the hood improvements, which many people will never notice, but make a massive difference, especially for people beginning to use Lr or Ps. I applaud publicly this progress.

I hope that maybe this item might get some TLC in the not so distant future.

By: Matt O’Brien

Matt O’Brien — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 08:53:06 +0000

1. Super well done for documenting this process.

2. As resetting the preferences is the default solution for all unexplained Lr problems, it is shameful that Adobe do not have a tool which resets the preferences, but preserves the user input fields.

3. What is more painful is that if the preferences file is the root of so many Lr problems, why has Adobe not resolved this many many years ago

The most obvious solution is for Adobe to keep the user settings in a user only read only file and keep all the internal status stuff that is maintained internally by the Lr app in a different parameter file, making resetting the preferences a less painful user experience, plus the exercise might help flush out what is going wrong with this parameter file anyway.

Again, well done for documenting this.

By: Steve Kalman

Steve Kalman — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 13:17:39 +0000

I have a folder with subfolders in my catalog for saved data. License codes for all of software in case I have to reinstall, serial numbers for everything from the PC, to the dishwasher, model names, numbers purchase date/place for all things under warranty. Adding a few screen shots of preferences wasn’t a big deal. (For LR and also for PS)

By the way, I also have a separate folder with pictures of my driver’s license, passport, insurance cards (wife’s, to) that I sync to LR mobile.

By: Rob Sylvan

Rob Sylvan — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:32:01 +0000

In reply to Dennis Zito. You're welcome! :)

By: Dennis Zito

Dennis Zito — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:17:27 +0000

Hey Rob,

Thanks so much for going through this reset! You actually answered a few questions I’ve had for a while on some of the preference settings.

You’re the Man!!

Dennis

By: Rob Sylvan

Rob Sylvan — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 14:29:25 +0000

In reply to Rudi. Yes, I do use the Don't show again box. My point in this post is that resetting preferences resets all Don't show again checkboxes, so I had to see it and check it again (and be reminded of my disdain for that feature). There were far more useful and important things (IMHO) worth fighting for that far superseded that annoying (IMHO) prompt. So it goes. Not something worth losing sleep over.

By: Eric Wessman

Eric Wessman — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 12:00:48 +0000

I’m glad you took some time to spell that out. Every time I see the Reset Preferences mentioned in an article or post I cringe at what that entails. On the few instances where I have had an issue with LR, I find it easier to close and reopen LR, reboot the computer, or wait for the next update.One of the beauties of LR is the amount of personalization it permits. I have so many things tweaked to my liking that I don’t want to have to start all over again.

By: Rudi

Rudi — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 09:48:21 +0000

Wow, we’ve been long time fighting (i.e. Scott was) for the “Do you really want to quit?” button and it’s good to have it. Just use the “Don’t show again” and you’re good to go.

Using two displays really was a step forward as it now works better on my Mac (EIZO as 2nd display which is recognized so).

At least my thoughts about changed settings would just be a button to save what’s different when resetting and then to be able to load them again after the settings were set to default. Or just change the default settings to my actual settings when doing a reset. That shouldn’t be a big change to LR.