Colorsync Devices Removal Problem

Hi. I have a problem understanding how to remove a printer in Colorsync. In Colorsync Devices on the left hand side is list of Registered Colorsync devices. Here I have my Epson Scanner with a blue dot in the default column. No Cameras. Displays = iMac with a blue dot. Printers with a HP Photosmart with a blue dot and under that my Epson Stylus printer. I no longer have the HP printer and would like to make the Epson the default printer, but I can't find any way to remove it out of the Colorsync listing. I have deleted the HP printer drivers and all the HP software it came with. So how does Colorsync still think it is my default printer? Clicking on the HP printer shows the printer ID on the right along with its Mode and System/Library. . . paths. Clicking on my Epson shows its ID on the right with the Make Default Printer box greyed out. Surly there must be a way to change this.
Ivor

20" iMAC G5 2GHz, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Mar 10, 2010 4:14 PM

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Mar 11, 2010 11:24 AM in response to ILCwarksUK

Hmmm, clicking on a printer in PSU changes the blue dot in Colorsync in real time, I'm guessing a corrupt file, quit both, Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these files to the Desktop & reboot...

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/ByHost/.GlobalPreferences.<12digitHex#>. plist

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist

Then this one must be trashed after copying to the Desktop...

/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist

Message was edited by: BDAqua

Mar 11, 2010 4:41 PM in response to BDAqua

Hi.
Sorry about this but I don't seem to have any files at all with a . . . /GlobalPreferances.plist
I have even run Spotlight to try and find them with no luck. I am running Mac OS X 10.4.11.
The nearest is a file called . . . . ByHost/com.apple.preference.displays.001124ccbb40.plist
And one called . . . ByHost/com.apple.systemuiserver.001124ccbb40.plist
The only one I have found is the . . . systemperferences.plist
I have done the Safe Boot and Repair Permissions but still have the same problem.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Ivor

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