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What are Scott Kivowitz's top recommendations for backing up Lightroom presets using Carbon Copy Cloner?
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Scott’s main recommendation is to treat your presets like your photo library: back them up automatically and redundantly.
Based on the tutorial on backing up presets with Carbon Copy Cloner, here are the key points:
- Use Carbon Copy Cloner to create a scheduled task that runs daily
- Target the hidden folders on your Mac that store Lightroom (and onOne) presets
- Have CCC create a disk image on a backup drive instead of just loose folders
- Keep that disk image on a drive that is also backed up (local RAID and/or off-site)
- Let Time Machine handle full-system backups, and CCC focus on libraries and presets
Would you like step‑by‑step instructions on setting up that daily CCC preset backup?
