How to solve ColorSync Utility 'bad' profiles issue?

Hello


I have a 13 inch 2014 Macbook Air. I have found this program called "ColorSync Utility", and when I tried to test this out, it found 5 bad profiles. Please see below.


Searching for profiles...

Checking 81 profiles...

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

Tag 'desc': Description tag has a bad Unicode string.

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

Tag 'pseq': Required tag is not present.

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

Tag 'pseq': Required tag is not present.

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

Tag 'pseq': Required tag is not present.

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

Tag 'pseq': Required tag is not present.

Verify done. Found 5 bad profiles.

When I press "repair", nothing happens. It is unable to fix the profiles. Please help solve this problem.

Thanks,

GalacticKat

MacBook Air, macOS Sierra (10.12.1), 250Gb

Posted on Dec 7, 2016 6:19 AM

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Dec 7, 2016 7:27 AM in response to GalacticKat

Ignore the messages. The ColorSync Utility is too literal about how it thinks a profile should be built. There are many types of tags that can be in one. Some are deprecated and do not in any way affect using the profile, but ColorSync complains about it anyway. Here's what it says about the profiles on my Mac (not surprisingly, many of the same ones installed by Adobe as on your Mac):


Checking 126 profiles...

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

Header message digest (MD5) is not correct.

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

Header message digest (MD5) is not correct.

/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/EIZO 11-17-16.icc

Header message digest (MD5) is missing.

Tag 'desc': Identical text could share the same data.

Tag 'dscm': Identical text could share the same data.

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

Tag 'desc': Description tag has a bad Unicode string.

/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/JohnRobertsEFI_OverDrive.icc

Tag 'DEVS': Tag reserved field is not zero.

Tag 'desc': Description tag has a bad Unicode string.

/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/JohnRobertsEFI.icc

Tag 'DEVS': Tag reserved field is not zero.

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

Tag 'pseq': Required tag is not present.

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

Tag 'pseq': Required tag is not present.

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

Tag 'pseq': Required tag is not present.

/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/TIFF RGB

Tag 'desc': Tag size is not correct.

Tag 'desc': Description tag has a bad Macintosh string.

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

Tag 'pseq': Required tag is not present.

Verify done. Found 11 bad profiles.

All information that can be ignored, despite the dire sounding messages. A few of those are ones I created myself using X-Rite's i1 Profiler. I'm quite sure X-Rite knows what they're doing. I'll believe the profiles their software created are good before I'd believe ColorSync Utility's warnings. Besides, they work as expected, so how "bad" can they be?

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