Error when trying to calibrate color after installing 10.6

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Error when trying to calibrate color after installing 10.6

After installing Snow Leopard, when trying to calibrate the screen it gets to the end and then reverts back to the crappy default snow leopard calibration and says:

"An error occured. The new calibrated display profile could not be created or set to be the current profile for this display."

also, I noticed they spelled "occured" wrong. It should be "occurred" no?

17" mbp, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Aug 31, 2009 12:58 AM

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Aug 31, 2009 2:48 AM in response to jpsimon

Would it be possible to test this with an external display?

All I know from the features list of SL is that the default gamma has (finally!) changed from 1.8 to 2.2. This is a major issue for graphics designers, photographers etc. - JG

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necronym

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Aug 31, 2009 2:58 AM in response to jpsimon

You didn't say what you're using to calibrate your screen. (Hardware calibration or software - hardware is always more accurate)

Personally, I use ColorMunki Photo (Software version 1.1) to calibrate my 24" LED Cinema on my Mac Pro and it worked perfectly. This little device is a godsend for colour critical work (thank you X-Rite people).

The 1.1 software produced a profile which runs on my display and I was able to profile my printers based on the display profile, so what I see on screen is pretty much what comes out the printer (no nasty darker or lighter prints)

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Aug 31, 2009 7:06 AM in response to necronym

I'm using the calibration in the OSX system preferences. I've never had issues with it before.. but now that I've installed snow leopard it doesn't let me make any calibration changes, it always reverts back to the default and gives me that error message.

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Aug 31, 2009 11:16 AM in response to jpsimon

Color profiles sit in Macintosh HD (or whatever your HD is called) -> Library -> ColorSync -> Profiles -> Displays

Can you see the name you gave the profile when calibrating? Can you see the default profile? Maybe moving the default helps? - JG

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jpsimon Author

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Aug 31, 2009 11:48 AM in response to J Gysenbergs

It has my old profiles in there, but it doesn't actually save the new one when I click "done". it gives me that error, and nothing is saved.

this is driving me nuts!!

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necronym

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Aug 31, 2009 4:42 PM in response to jpsimon

Could you not edit the default profile to the settings you want?

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Sep 2, 2009 11:06 AM in response to necronym

Just installed SL at work and yes indeed the same problem pops up! Solution was to set myself as owner of the appropriate folders. Display Calibrator then writes the calibration file as before. Apple should fix this! - JG

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Sep 2, 2009 10:07 PM in response to J Gysenbergs

I have to refine the above answer. You just need to add yourself to the Sharing & Permissions list of the Displays folder (select Displays folder and Get Info) and change the permissions to Read & Write.

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--Ken

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Sep 7, 2009 8:43 AM in response to J Gysenbergs

Thanks for the info on changing permissions of the Displays folder. Corrected the problem for me!

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Sep 11, 2009 12:23 PM in response to J Gysenbergs

I read your response and changed the permissions to read/write...I STILL have the issue and now I'm pretty confused (and frustrated). I went to Displays under Macintosh HD and such and gave everyone and everything access rights but to no avail.

Why?!

PS - Thanks for your response though I am glad to see it did work for someone else haha.

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Answer 11

Sep 11, 2009 1:11 PM in response to BMBell1919

Yes indeed, the problem started again. I found SuperCal - 1.1.4 on Versiontracker which is capable of writing a profile to the general list of profiles. However, this program is time consuming so I gave up and reverted to 10.5.8 just because of these calibration problems. I think we have to wait until this is sorted out. - J

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Answer 12

Sep 11, 2009 2:09 PM in response to J Gysenbergs

Jeez wow. Thanks for the update! Good times...I'm ready for the update!

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