Re: Colorsync and OS X
Re: Colorsync and OS X
- Subject: Re: Colorsync and OS X
- From: Doug Brightwell <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 15:43:07 -0800
On 12/13/01 2:41 PM, "John Gnaegy" <email@hidden> wrote:
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There are three locations where you can install profiles, though two of
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them are easier than the third. Home, Library, and System.
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~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/
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This means go to your Home folder, there's a folder Library, in that a
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folder ColorSync, in that a folder Profiles. The "~", or tilde, means
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home. Each user has their own home folder. Only the current user can
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see profiles here.
This is sort of an OS X question, but it also has to do with ColorSync
Profiles.
At the recommendation of some posters on the OS X discussion on the Apple
web site, I placed my OS X system folder in it's own partition which can be
erased if and when I need to re-install the system starting with the
original 10.0 CD. (Which I've had to once already after ignoring warnings
about the bugginess of the 10.1.2 update.) Apparently, you can't re-install
earlier versions over later versions once the security update has been
installed and Jupiter is in Virgo... or whatever. So having a dedicated,
erasable system partition is a good idea.
But, obviously, erasing that partition trashes all the user installed files,
like colorsync profiles, personal utilities, Microsoft user identities, etc.
that live in the user folder
So... any reason not to move my user folder over to another hard drive and
put an alias in it's current location? I assume OS 10.1.1 doesn't care where
the colorsync profiles and other user files are physically, right? It'll
find them via the alias? (I'm the only user on this computer, and don't have
to worry about the profiles working for other people.)
Thanks,
Doug
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Doug Brightwell
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