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Hi! I'm stumped. Even my Mac aficionado friend is stumped. I had some presets built for me, which I used on a previous MacBook (PRO 13). Got a new one (MacBookPro 14in), and when I went to load the presets, the "Effects Presets" folder was not in the ProApps folder as it was on the last machine. It was dead easy last time...Library/Application Support/ProApps/Effects Folder...boom, loaded. Not now. I've tried everything. All tutorials. The fact that there was no Effects Presets Folder, and that I had to create one, is the first red flag. I recall there were 3 other folders in the ProApps Folder as well. If you have any suggestions, I would be very grateful as these presets were perfect for my mic and room, and I don't know how to replicate the settings.

I should note, that I am unable to right click a present in the effects browser, and be able to choose "reveal in finder" which you are supposed to be able to do.

This? -> /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/ProApps/Effects Presets/

That's where it's supposed to be, but as mentioned...there was no "Effects Presets" folder in the ProApps folder, and when I created one and dropped my presents into it, they never showed up.

Adding to the mystery; I did create an audio pre-set, and was allowed to "reveal in finder" only to find a folder called Effects Presets with my just created pre-set. So I thought, great, lets just copy and paste my presets there. It worked! But when I dragged the presets into my project, it basically muted the audio.

AND I can't find that folder in the file hierarchy in my finder! This is just bizarre. I have no idea where this Effects folder lives!

If you have a new machine the Secondary Click may not be set to right click.
Open System Preferences/Mouse and check that it is selected.

Since you didn't show a leading slash or twiddle slash ( /Library or ~/Library), I wasn't sure if you were looking in the correct place so stated the path explicitly. Sounds like you're looking in the correct place.

Does FCP have Full Disk Access in Sys Prefs?