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Profile First Aid Log showing 5 errors and files are locked so repair option is not effective

I get 5 errors on profile first aid

When i choose verify i get the below


Searching for profiles…

Checking 14 profiles…

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/VideoHD.icc

  Header message digest (MD5) is not correct. 

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/VideoNTSC.icc

  Header message digest (MD5) is not correct. 

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/VideoPAL.icc

  Header message digest (MD5) is not correct. 

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/Recommended/image-P3.icc

  Header message digest (MD5) is not correct. 

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/JapanColor2011Coated.icc

  Tag ‘desc’: Description tag has a bad Unicode string. 

Verify done. Found 5 bad profiles.


Once i choose repair i get


Searching for profiles…

Checking 59 profiles…

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/VideoHD.icc

  Header message digest (MD5) is not correct. 

  The file is locked. Could not be fixed.

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/VideoNTSC.icc

  Header message digest (MD5) is not correct. 

  The file is locked. Could not be fixed.

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/VideoPAL.icc

  Header message digest (MD5) is not correct. 

  The file is locked. Could not be fixed.

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/Recommended/image-P3.icc

  Header message digest (MD5) is not correct. 

  The file is locked. Could not be fixed.

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/JapanColor2011Coated.icc

  Tag ‘desc’: Description tag has a bad Unicode string. 

  The file is locked. Could not be fixed.

Repair done. 0 out of 5 profiles fixed.


Any solution for this ?


MacBook Air (2020 or later)

Posted on Jul 3, 2021 11:35 PM

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Posted on Jul 3, 2021 11:39 PM

Make sure to boot into recovery mode and then run First Aid. If you are booted from the same partition/drive the errors are on, there will be some files that remain locked so the profiles can't be repaired.

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Profile First Aid Log showing 5 errors and files are locked so repair option is not effective

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