Possibly fix one display profile problem

Mar 13, '06 06:43:00AM

Contributed by: aubreyapple

After installing Tiger, I noticed that my Dell 2405 looked washed out. I went to the Display Preference Plane and found that the Color Profile had been reset to Generic. I tried to put it to my calibrated profile, but it would not 'stick'. Also attempting to create a new profile failed stating that the 'Factory' profile was missing ... sure enough, it was not in the profile list.

I looked in /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays/ and found two files:

DELL 2405FPW Calibrated-2B284C50.icc
DELL 2405FPW-2B284C50.icc

Compared to the same files on my old 10.3.9 install, the second one had a different size. Replacing the Tiger version with the Pather one fixed the problem.

I am far from sure that Tiger was the culprit... the date stamp on the corrupted file was just a few hours old... but this may help someone with a similar problem.

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