Mountain Lion Update Causes apps to turn Pink?!

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Mountain Lion Update Causes apps to turn Pink?!

Hello,

So I currently have a MacBook Pro With retina Display. I upgraded to Mountain Lion the day it came out, everything worked great. However, today (or possibly yesterday) apple put out an update that enabled Power Nap as well as fixing some problems for MBPRs. I believe it was the SMC Update, but can't find the exact name at the moment.

I installed it, worked fine. Was happy... That is until it turned my machine back on.

Suddenly apps (including native apps such as Safari) had items that were a pink-ish red color. Items in my menu bar were included and even while I write this, items on this page including the top Apple bar are off color pink/red.

I immediately restarted... No luck.

Shut down and turn back on... No luck.

Clear PRAM/NVRAM... No luck.

I am including a screenshot I took:

http://cl.ly/image/2Z2l403Y2s2P

I am currently quite concerned as it is also slowing everything down. I am also out of the country right now, so calling Apple is out of the question for me...

Hoping someone might have some ideas.

Thanks so much

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion, 16 GB. 2.3GHZ.

Posted on Jul 27, 2012 1:32 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 27, 2012 2:23 PM in response to Da BomB

Please calibrate your display. Check display settings.

Preferences => Displays => Color => Calibrate

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Answer 2

Da BomB Author

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Jul 27, 2012 2:27 PM in response to Ger Teunis

This is not a calibration issue. It would not change the color of just certain items.... For example, Messages Runs perfectly and some websites run perfectly where as others like apple.com do not.

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Answer 3

Jul 27, 2012 2:30 PM in response to Da BomB

It looks like it highlites all the non retina images in apps and websites. you can disable it with a terminal instruction. i'll look it up for you.

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Answer 4

Jul 27, 2012 2:32 PM in response to Da BomB

here's some more info and the command you should execute with terminal: http://osxdaily.com/2012/06/26/highlight-non-retina-image-assets-in-red-to-insur e-high-resolution-images-load/

change "YES" in "NO".

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Da BomB Author

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Jul 27, 2012 2:52 PM in response to Toon_0812

I actually thought of that before as well, but it didn't solve the issue.

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Answer 6

Jul 27, 2012 2:57 PM in response to Da BomB

To be clear, the original poster has already mentioned tried in another forum that running in a new user account "fixes" this issue.

There is clearly something installed on your user account that is not ready for primetime.

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Da BomB Author

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Jul 27, 2012 3:00 PM in response to Toon_0812

Ok, I just was able to narrow it down.

In fact Toon was basically/partially right...

To fix this, for anyone else with the issue:

Launch Terminal

Use:

defaults write -g CGContextHighlight2xScaledImages NO

Then the step that wasn't noted in that article was to type: killall Dock

I thought about that once I ran the command and it did work.

It appears that the SMC update automatically set this to be YES. Not sure why as it was set to NO previously.

Anyway, thanks for the help guys!

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Answer 8

Aug 25, 2012 7:38 AM in response to Da BomB

Thank you so much. It was a nightmare not knowing what was causing it. I tried to re-caliber several times, looking for something under color settings. Never thought it could be the Retina Display. What added more confusion to me was, that the same page in Safari and FireFox looked bad, but the same page under Chrome looked perfect.

Your solution helped me, but in order to have Safari to display everything "normal" again, I had to reboot, maybe to clean the cache.

A thousand thank yous to Toon and you.

From Guatemala, Central America.

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