# Presets not saving/persisting

**URL:** <https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/presets-not-saving-persisting/9953>\
**Category:** Guides and How-Tos\
**Created:** [January 10, 2026, 6:19am UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/presets-not-saving-persisting/9953 "2026-01-10T06:19:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![the\_brotographer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@the\_brotographer](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/the_brotographer)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 6:19am UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/presets-not-saving-persisting/9953/1 "2026-01-10T06:19:33Z")

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I just started using the new version 3.1.1. When I go to create a preset, it appears in the settings drop down. After I apply it and go to develop other images, I got back to negative lab pro and those presets are gone. I’ve created a presets in the user folder, created them in the existing folders, and nothing is working. Is this a known bug?

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**Author:** ![Digitizer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Digitizer](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/Digitizer)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 11:53am UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/presets-not-saving-persisting/9953/2 "2026-01-11T11:53:10Z")

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Welcome to the forum @the_brotographer

Saving presets and problems with it have been covered in several posts. Sometimes, access rights aren’t set as expected due to whatever problem there was. Several ways to fix this have been reported. Please search the forum. It also helps you, as a new user, to surmount limitations that are implemented for new users (monitoring, number of attachments, etc.)

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**Author:** ![the\_brotographer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@the\_brotographer](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/the_brotographer)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 8:49pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/presets-not-saving-persisting/9953/3 "2026-01-12T20:49:22Z")

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Thanks for the reply. I’m not a new user actually, and have been using version 2 for years now. I also did a search on the forum, but didn’t find the right threads apparently. Can you link the proper threads that discuss fixes?

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**Author:** ![Digitizer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Digitizer](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/Digitizer)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 10:18pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/presets-not-saving-persisting/9953/4 "2026-01-12T22:18:29Z")

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Fixes are mostly found with corrected access rights. How to do it depends on whether a Mac or Win computer is used. What is yours?

BTW: Limits are applied by the forum software. Searching, reading and posting pushes the limits. And only the status as a forum user is relevant.

Meanwhile, I checked how I have set access rights on my Mac. The user account’s _Library_ folder (which is usually hidden, press shift-command-period to show) contains a _Application Support_ folder and therein lies the folder _Negative Lab Pro_ containing more folders, subfolders and files.

Access rights of the Negative Lab Pro folder and everything within are set as follows:

- Owner = (MyAccountName) = Read & Write
- Group = “staff” = Read Only
- World = “everyone” = Read Only

These settings are fairly tight but NLP handles them without apparent issues. You can loosen rights by allowing Read & Write for “Group” and “World”. _Before_ you do. Duplicate the folder for fallback. Once you set rights, propagate them to all things within.

On Windows, things are different and someone else should be able to provide directions.