After Effects CC 2023: How To Restore Missing Animation User Presets Folder
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Description:
This tutorial will show you how to locate and restore missing animation user presets in the Effects & Presets panel of Adobe After Effects CC 2023 after upgrading from AE 2022 to AE 2023.
Keyboard Shortcuts:
Quit After Effects (Cmd/Ctrl + Q)
Adobe Help:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/effects-animation-presets-overview.html
USER ANIMATION PRESETS HARD DRIVE LOCATION:
- My Documents\Adobe\After Effects CC (Windows)
- Documents/Adobe/After Effects CC (macOS)
Chapters:
00:07 Intro: About the Tutorial
00:23 Scenario: Upgrading from AE2022 to AE2023
00:39 Where are User Presets stored on the hard drive?
01:05 Mac: Documents Folder…Adobe…User Presets
01:37 Copy & Paste User Presets
02:01 Quit Adobe After Effects (Cmd/Ctrl + Q)
02:14 Re-open Adobe After Effects 2023
Software Used:
Adobe After Effects CC 2023 (Click To Try or Buy)
How To Restore Missing Animation User Presets in AE 2023 (Mac Users):
- Open Finder
- Go to the ‘Documents’ Folder
- Twirl open Adobe
- Twirl open the previous version of AE
- Twirl open the ‘User Presets’ folder
- Copy custom animation presets (Cmd + C)
- Twirl open AE 2023 Folder
- Twirl open User Presets folder
- Paste (Cmd + V) custom animation presets
- Quit Adobe After Effects CC 2023 (Cmd + Q)
- Re-open
- Go to the ‘Effects & Presets’ panel
- Twirl open ‘Animation Presets’
- Confirm User Presets folder has been restored.
How To Restore Missing Animation User Presets in AE 2023 (Windows Users):
- Open Explorer
- Go to ‘My Documents’ Folder
- Twirl open Adobe
- Twirl open previous version of AE
- Twirl open ‘User Presets’ folder
- Copy custom animation presets (Ctrl + C)
- Twirl open AE 2023 Folder
- Twirl open the User Presets folder
- Paste (Ctrl + V) custom animation presets
- Quit Adobe After Effects CC 2023 (Ctrl + Q)
- Re-open
- Go to the ‘Effects & Presets’ panel
- Twirl open ‘Animation Presets’
- Confirm User Presets folder has been restored.
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