Display color profiles in display preference pane

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Display color profiles in display preference pane

So I'm having all those washed out colors that others are having and I have always had my gamma set at 2.2 so I know what it is supposed to look like.

Anyway question for everyone: if you go to your display preference pane and under the color tab where the profiles should show up are you guys seeing duplicate profiles?

For Example I have 3 Adobe RGB (1998) profiles, 2 Apple RGB profiles, 2 ColorMAtch RGB profiles, 1 CIE RGB etc etc.

Some profiles are duplicate others 3 times others are single. I don't remember that being that way in Leopard. Just wondering if there is a bug or something went wrong with SL install.

On another note I calibrate my monitor with a huey pro which never gave me any problems in leopard. I have updated to the latest 1.5.1 software and it will calibrate my imac, but if i try to change the gamma through the huey pro software it attempts to change it but it reverts back to whatever it was (assuming 2.2 which is ok but I'm not sure that's supposed to happen unless apple chose to restrict gamma value changes from calibrating software other than colorsync)

2009 iMAC 2.93 Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Oct 14, 2009 2:25 PM

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pilot1620 Author

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Oct 14, 2009 2:46 PM in response to pilot1620

Can someone please take the time and check their display preference pane / color tab and check if some of the profiles are showing up more than once? I'd appreciate it.

Thank you

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Kappy

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Oct 14, 2009 3:17 PM in response to pilot1620

There's no bug. A couple of explanations are:

1. Copies have propagated during system upgrades you've performed in the past.
2. There are copies in both the /Library/ and /Home/Library/ folders.

If you want a profile available to all users then it's stored in the /Library/ level folder. If you want a profile only available to a user then it's store in the /Home/Library/ level folder. If a profile is found at both levels then it appears as a duplicate.

Duplicate profiles can be deleted (if you are sure they are duplicates.)

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pilot1620 Author

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Oct 14, 2009 3:25 PM in response to Kappy

I thought about what you are saying but I don't remember leopard serving up the same profile more than once. If what you are saying is true if I had 20 user accounts on my iMac with all profiles available to all users which would get included in their user accounts then i would have the same display profile show up 20 times in the display preference pane.

And on top of that I only have one user account on this iMac. Even the guest account is disabled, so that would not explain some profiles even showing up 3 times. Is yours doing that also?

Just checking. Thank you for your input

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Oct 19, 2009 5:35 PM in response to pilot1620

so I got the washed out colors and the duplicates. I've been using the HUey Pro to calibrate my monitors but it was acting a little funky (tech speak for no idea what was up) ... so I found that the duplicate profiles in the display preferences panel are being caused by an alias to the folder 'recommended' in HD/library/colorsync/profiles - the linked folder is actually in the other aliased folder in this folder 'profiles' --- I removed the 1st mentioned alias and the dupes went away ... at least some did.

One way to find the paths tot he other duplicates is to use the colorSync Utility - click the name and it will show you the path.

I'm going to try and re-calibrate using Huey

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Nov 5, 2009 12:47 PM in response to pilot1620

I had the duplicate profiles thing and think Ive sorted it out... In HD>Library>ColorSync>Profiles I found
1 "Displays" folder which contained any user calibrations.
And 2 Alias's to Library>ApplicationSupport>Adobe>Color>Profiles, & Profiles>Recommended.

I deleted Adobe's alias "Recommended" and it left me with duplicates for only 2 profiles, then I just deleted those profiles from the Adobe folder. I don't know where the original profiles are but I still have them in my "Displays" preference pane.

Make sure you back up before doing any of this! I have just done it and all seems well, but I expect horrible repercussions will become apparent as they usually do when I try something clever like this.

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