Re: Profiles not showing up
Re: Profiles not showing up
- Subject: Re: Profiles not showing up
- From: John Gnaegy <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:14:37 -0800
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I ve discovered that sometimes profiles dont show up
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in the monitors control panel, while deleted ones are still
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there.
It's hard to tell exactly what you're seeing from that, but here are some things to keep in mind.
A)If you have two monitors 1 and 2, and you create a profile for monitor 1, it won't show up on monitor 2, it's not supposed to.
B) Profiles have both a file name (obviously) and a description string (several actually). Usually what you see in popup menus and profiles lists is the description string, which is not necessarily the same as the file name. In the ColorSync control panel in any of the profile popup menus you can tell which profiles have a description string different from the file name, and also which profiles are not directly in the ColorSync Profiles folder (maybe in an aliased folder instead). Hilight any profile with your cursor and if either of these two is the case, a balloon appears with the location on disk.
C) The profiles in the Displays subfolder of the ColorSync Profiles folder are a little weird in some ways. These profiles are created on the fly by the Display Manager, generated based on information extracted from the EDID data in the monitor. Then an alias is made to that generated file. (Not all monitors have EDID date, in that case the alias points to a regular profile, usually Generic RGB, but you'll always have one alias per display.) These generated profiles can be thrown away, but they're still in memory...so even if you toss them, they still show up in the Monitors control panel. Maybe that's what you're seeing. If you toss them and reboot, they're recreated from info in a prefs file kept by the Display Manager. If you want to generate a whole new profile based on the EDID data, you have to toss the profile, toss all the Display and Monitor prefs, then reboot. But there's really no point in doing that unless you're trying to debug the EDID data, which you probably aren't.
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John Gnaegy
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