Prevent the creation of profiles.bin in the home folder

Sep 14, '07 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: sig eigei

I was looking to solve the mysterious auto-creation of a file creation of profiles.bin in my Home folder. I found this hint useful for deleting the file with AppleScript. In that hint, the author attributes the file to non-English versions of Microsoft office. I did a bit of poking around and was able to find another solution and information about the source on this post on the Macitynet.it forums.

The page is in Italian, but for those of you who can't read it, clever user 'faxus' explains that Microsoft Office is most likely only part of the problem. He continues to explain that there is problem with the Display profiles being out of sync with certain applications, and profiles.bin is therfore created by necessity upon restart. User 'marcodal' notes then that creating a new Display profile on the affected machine solves the problem.

Therefore, following his example, I went to System Preferences » Displays » Color » Calibrate, and accepted all of the default settings for my MacBook Pro 2.4; this created a new Display profile called "Color LCD Calibrated." After a few restarts and running of different Office programs, I do not see the profiles.bin file being created any more.

I can't say if this is useful only for the Italian version of Office. Obviously Italians are having the issue, but my own version of Office is English language.

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