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I still need to do some checking to make sure that they are now working fine, but its saved me a considerable amount of work, and also means that I am less likely to have missed something. But thanks to BBEdit's multi-file search, I was able to do a “search and replace” for the Process Version string across all my preset files, and batch change them in one go to remove reference to the process version. This is a bit of an issue for the presets that I sell on my store, and I thought that I was going to have to manually go through them, one by one, and re-save each preset from within Lightroom. With the release of Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC, Adobe has updated the process version, and most of my presets have the process version included in them. This actually recently saved me hours of work. If you use a powerful text editor like BBedit on the mac, you can perform advanced search and replace across multiple files, and in turn, batch-edit your presets.

If you have created a set of presets, but you accidentally included a setting in the file that you didn’t want to, you can open it and delete that setting.

Well, there are many reasons that you might want to do this. Obviously, you don't need to use BBEdit for this, any high-quality text editor will work. So, while not for the faint-hearted or technically challenged, if you know what you’re doing, you can actually open the files in a text editor and make changes. lrtemplate files are just plain text files formatted as XML code. One of the things that you may not know is that Lightroom preset files are actually fairly easy to edit outside of Lightroom.

Lightroom editing preset