Profile monitor for many users
Profile monitor for many users
- Subject: Profile monitor for many users
- From: Howard Ehrenfeld <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:58:45 -0400
- Thread-topic: Profile monitor for many users
Apple generates a monitor profile in the ColorSync>Profiles>Displays folder
called Cinema HD, Apple Cinema HD Display, or iMac depending on the attached
monitor. There is a hyphen after the name and a series of numbers that can
often be very long (50 characters including .icc) I am trying to replace
that very profile with a custom one that I give the exact same name, but it
does not appear to work as I would like. It appears that the Mac OS (Snow
Leopard) regenerates the original default display profile and replaces the
custom profile with the old apple profile. I want to do this because I am
having a problem with using a custom display profile on a computer for many
users. I want to do this to many computers. I teach at a college that uses
a multi-user environment for it¹s Mac computer users. The applications and
user files are stored on the individual computer locally, but the login is
from the network.
I am having a problem profiling these monitors so that all users can
experience the profiled display. As a non-administrative user, you can make
a monitor profile, but the custom profile resides in the user level
ColorSync folder, is only visible to the individual user and the user does
not have permission to change the System Preferences Display profile. I can
profile the display as an administrative user so that the new profile
resides in the root level ColorSync folder. I can choose that new profile
as my default display profile, but for all the other users, the original
default Apple display profile is what loads when they log in. I thought that
I could profile the computer as an administrator and then rename my profile
the default display name and replace it with my new profile of the same
name. Somewhere Apple seems to have information that does not allow this.
The OS just regenerates the default Display profile, so that replacing
doesn¹t work on this level and the color goes back to the default.
Another, long term problem is that with certain OS updates, Apple replaces
the default display profile with an additional, similarly named profile and
then with other updates, like the new one to 10.6.7, it just updates the
existing profile so that the Date Modified changes to the update date. I
think that this means that if I were to achieve my switch, I would lose my
custom monitor profile every time there is an update to the OS.
Any thoughts about how I can solve my problem? I need a solution that just
loads without the individual student logins. It won¹t work if they have to
actively make choices. It would also be nice if I did not have to replace
the file with every new OS update.
Thanks,
Howard
Howard Ehrenfeld > Studio H > 410-235-7118
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