Sharing custom display profiles between multiple users

Hello,


I'm brand new to Mountain Lion and I can't figure out how to share a custom display profile between multiple users on the same MBP. I'm a photographer and I have two users set up on my laptop - one personal and one for shooting. I'm using a Color Munki to calibrate my external monitor and the software creates a profile.


Previously, I could go into my library, copy the profile and drag it into the colorsync folder for my other user, then switch to my other user and find that profile in system preferences/displays.


I have no idea how to do this in Mountain Lion.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Oct 7, 2013 8:35 AM

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Oct 8, 2013 3:46 AM in response to baltwo

Thank you for the reply but this doesn't fix my problem.


The XRite (color calibration) software placed my custom profile for my monitor in /library/ColorSync/Profiles. There isn't a folder for "Displays". Should I create one, and will System Preferences know to look for my profile there?


Correction: when I try to assign the custom profile in system preferences while signed in on my professional user, there are two profiles listed, both named "display" which are located in library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays. But when I look in Library/ColorSync/Profiles there is no folder named "Displays". Where is it?

Oct 8, 2013 7:53 AM in response to Timothy Kolk

Let me simplify this by refering to User A and User B to represent the two separate users I've created on my MBP.


I've done some more digging and here's what I've found: In the Color Sync utility for User A my custom profile is in a user folder, represented by the name I gave the file when the profile was created. That's no problem


When I switch to the User B, there are two profiles in the Color Sync Utility named "Display". The "Display" file was created at the same time my custom profile was created, however, the file names don't match and I don't know why there are two of them.


I'm fairly certain that "Display" profile is the custom profile I want to use, but there's a problem coming down the road: what's going to happen when I profile my monitor again in 3 weeks.

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