Can't calibrate color profiles on Mac?

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Can't calibrate color profiles on Mac?

My Macbook's display color profile was changed for some reason. I went into System Preferences > Displays > Color and pressed calibrate. It says "An error occurred. The new calibrated display profile could not be created or set to be the current profile for this display". The "Delete Profile" button is greyed out, as well.

I've tried searching for solutions to the problem (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4495714 including following this tutorial) but I wasn't able to find anything that worked.

Does anyone know how to solve this issue or are encountering a similar problem?

Thanks.

-octos_

MacBook Air, macOS High Sierra (10.13.2)

Posted on Sep 13, 2018 4:41 AM

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Luis Sequeira1

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Sep 13, 2018 7:11 AM in response to octos_

1) Look at ~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles. That is where your custom profiles should be.

It is possible there are corrupt profiles in there.

Drag any custom profiles out of this folder

2) For good measure, you may also reset the ColorSync preferences: go to ~/Library/Preferences, drag any files named com.apple.ColorSync-something out of this folder.

3) Log out and back in.

4) See if you can now manage your profiles correctly.

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Eau Rouge

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Sep 13, 2018 6:51 AM in response to octos_

Your profile says you are on 10.13.2 but I am going to go out on a limb and guess that is not current and you are on 10.13.6. Ok download and then install the 10.13.6 Combo from here, Download macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Combo Update it will reset some caches and system files and may be the way to get back your display calibration.

If you are on 10.13.2 and want to stay there you can select and download the Combo from here, Apple - Support - Downloads in either case it will not do any harm to install whichever Combo is appropriate for your version.

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Can't calibrate color profiles on Mac?

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