Problem saving screen profile file.

On 2015-08-09 05:26, Eric Stevens wrote:

I don't think the problem is anything to do with the colorimeter.
Something new has clashed with the software.

Some people often have problems with clashing colours, so no surprise.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/w...ement-settings

Can't find a Win 10 guide, but the above may lead you into the
appropriate rabbit hole.

Obligatory snide and superior Mac comment follows. If you MS users
don't feel like being humiliated (again) you may stop reading here.

On a Mac you would just open SysPrefs - display - color and select the
profile of interest (or calibrate from there). You could also use your
colour calibration widget and its s/w would save the new profile which
in turn would be accessible as above (or set it itself).

SaveProfileUsingICM
It doesn't help if you spell the function name wrong.

I'm not an expert on this, but for what it's worth:

1) It seems to be trying to delete an old copy
and running into a bug in the software.
Maybe a dummy file of the same name would
satisfy that.

2) Could the ICM file be saved elsewhere and then
just copied into the folder?

3) Presumably you have a 64-bit version of the
software? 32-bit that's 64-bit-unaware might
try to save to System32 and fail. (Against all
common sense, System32 is the 64-bit folder
on Win64.)

4) If you think permissions are the issue you can
"take ownership" of the folder and then give
yourself permission. And/or start the program
with elevated permissions. (right click option)

"net user administrator /active:yes" only makes
the real admin account visible at boot. You would
then need to log in with that account to be a real
admin.
I quickly got fed up with that convoluted nonsense
when I started to work with Win7 and ended up
writing a simple program to *really* free up any
file/folder:
http://www.jsware.net/jsware/nt6fix.php5#restfix

It's free. You're welcome to it. If you're queasy about
3rd-party software look up CACLS and Takeown. Those
are command line options that can do the same thing
my software does -- just with more work. I *think*
the same can be done manually but the restrictions
mess is so convoluted I've never been able to quite
figure that out for certain.

I wonder about permissions if the software used to
work. On the other hand, if you're enabling Windows
Update without carefully checking exactly what each
patch is doing then all bets are off.

It seems very odd that the people writing the software
have no ideas, but that may be a case for a 3rd-party
factor. Those things can be very hard to track down
because they're unexpected by nature. Though I suppose
you could try killing any process related to Adobe, printer,
etc before you do the operation. That wouldn't hurt.

Ron Hardin's idea of Process Explorer (sysinternals.com)
is good in general, though if you're trying to write a
file that doesn't exist it can hardly be locked by another
process.

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Alan Browne wrote:

On 2015-08-09 05:26, Eric Stevens wrote:

I don't think the problem is anything to do with the colorimeter.
Something new has clashed with the software.

Some people often have problems with clashing colours, so no surprise.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/w...ement-settings

Can't find a Win 10 guide, but the above may lead you into the
appropriate rabbit hole.

Obligatory snide and superior Mac comment follows. If you MS users
don't feel like being humiliated (again) you may stop reading here.

On a Mac you would just open SysPrefs - display - color and select the
profile of interest (or calibrate from there). You could also use your
colour calibration widget and its s/w would save the new profile which
in turn would be accessible as above (or set it itself).

If you'r "savy" and have unsupported hardware then:

http://www.argyllcms.com/ + http://dispcalgui.hoech.net/
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On 8/9/2015 5:39 AM, Savageduck wrote:

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Have you installed any fresh printer drivers?


Why would he want to do that. Polite ones are easier to get along with.


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fruit flies like a banana

On 2015-08-09 15:44:08 +0000, PeterN said:

On 8/9/2015 5:39 AM, Savageduck wrote:

snip
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Have you installed any fresh printer drivers?

Why would he want to do that. Polite ones are easier to get along with.

Sigh!

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Savageduck

On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 02:39:45 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2015-08-09 09:29:19 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Sat, 8 Aug 2015 22:42:19 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

There is no reason for iTunes to access color management. I cannot
speak for how Windows executes profiles for monitor/display color
management.

Dammit. I meant Quicktime.

Why would QT need to access color management? The OS, be it Win or OSX
is going to handle that for QT.

I don't know whether it does or not. But it does handle images.

Have you installed any fresh printer drivers?

Nope.

...and after the July 31 PS update, did you install the PS CC 2015 fix
made available on August 5?

Yes. But my problems started before July 31 and have continued to this
day.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 08:39:26 -0400, Alan Browne
wrote:

On 2015-08-09 05:26, Eric Stevens wrote:

I don't think the problem is anything to do with the colorimeter.
Something new has clashed with the software.

Some people often have problems with clashing colours, so no surprise.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/w...ement-settings

Nope: it's nothing to do with that. My problem is that the colorimeter
can't now save the profiles that the color management needs to use.

Can't find a Win 10 guide, but the above may lead you into the
appropriate rabbit hole.

Been there, done that.

Obligatory snide and superior Mac comment follows. If you MS users
don't feel like being humiliated (again) you may stop reading here.

On a Mac you would just open SysPrefs - display - color and select the
profile of interest (or calibrate from there). You could also use your
colour calibration widget and its s/w would save the new profile which
in turn would be accessible as above (or set it itself).

It's supposed to work more or less like that in Windows also, and it
would if the Spyder was able to save it's newly generated profile.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 07:59:57 -0400, Ron Hardin
wrote:

Ron Hardin wrote:

Maybe some service has it open. Try in safe mode,
just to limit what starts up.
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On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

Also Process Explorer I think can tell you who has a file open.

That's a thought. I will have a try.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

There is no reason for iTunes to access color management. I cannot
speak for how Windows executes profiles for monitor/display color
management.

Dammit. I meant Quicktime.

Why would QT need to access color management? The OS, be it Win or OSX
is going to handle that for QT.

I don't know whether it does or not. But it does handle images.

everything in os x is colour managed, right down to finder icons.

On 2015-08-09 17:29, Eric Stevens wrote:
It's supposed to work more or less like that in Windows also, and it
would if the Spyder was able to save it's newly generated profile.

Have you contacted the Spyder people?