Mac OS X and custom monitor profiles from Optical
Mac OS X and custom monitor profiles from Optical
- Subject: Mac OS X and custom monitor profiles from Optical
- From: Mark Winchester <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:23:42 -0600
- Organization: Sound Creations
I seemed to have uncovered a bug and two others seem to have experienced it
as well (discovered through the MacFixit forums). Two of us used Optical to
create a custom profile of our monitors, in Mac OS 9.1. When you drag that
profile into Mac OS X and then try to use it, via System Preferences one
gets a problem where any text field becomes black. Whether it is the whole
background in TextEdit, or single lines in whatever System Preference you
would want to choose. Obviously, this makes for an unusable system.
From my time with Apple, we concluded that the user prefs were someohow
being corrupted. Creating a new user eliminated the problem for the new
user. Another person sted what they found THE ANSWER to be:
"I have THE ANSWER. This problem has happened to me twice. First time fixed
by reinstalling the system, second time just trashing my user preferences.
Now I have discovered the offending preference....In the following directory
Your Home directory/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.ColorSyncDeviceList.localhost.plist
All you have to do is trash this file, then log out and back in! I did all
the work trying each preference one at a time (kind of like extension troubleshouting).
Trust me, it works."
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Anybody else tinkering with Mac OS X with custom monitor profiles, successfully?
Mark