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Problem saving screen profile file.
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 09:17:15 -0400, "Mayayana"
wrote: SaveProfileUsingICM It doesn't help if you spell the function name wrong. I agree, it doesn't. My apologies. My only excuse is that it was written in fine grey text on a charcoal background. 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. When all this started it was trying to delete an existing copy of Dell U2410-1.icm but no success. I tried renaming the profile it was trying to save to (say) Fred.icm and had no success with that either. 2) Could the ICM file be saved elsewhere and then just copied into the folder? I've got no access to or control over the software which determines where it is trying to save( C:\Windows\System32\Spool\drivers\color\... 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.) I've been running Spyder 4 (where the problem started) on 64 bit Windows for years with no problem. 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) I've done all that. "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. Understood. Administrator under Windows 7 is not a fully empowered Administrator unless you do as above. 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 THat's interesting and useful, but I shouldn't have to resort to that. I'll hold off for the time being. 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. Then there are the 'special' permissions, some of which are weird. 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. The information provided by Microsoft is usually obscurely brief. 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. I'm just about at that stage. A problem is that running a calibration to get a file to save takes several minutes so the cycle is slow. 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. I haven't tried yet and right now I have to go out and pick up my chain saw. :-) -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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Problem saving screen profile file.
On 2015-08-09 21:25:02 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
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. It doesn't, and just as with PS or LR display/monitor color management still rests with the OS, not the applications. You don't install display/monitor profiles in any application. Your OS applies the calibration to the display. Your issue is that for some reason you are unable to save the calibration profiles you have created. At least that is what I get from what you have told us. That makes me think the issue lies with either your current OS installation or the calibration software, or both. Have you installed any fresh printer drivers? Nope. OK! ...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. I guess that rules out Adobe then. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Problem saving screen profile file.
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 17:40:18 -0400, Alan Browne
wrote: 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? Oh yes. I seem to have gone up several steps in the technical competence of my contacts in my discussions. Right now they are either enjoying the weekend or trying to work out what to do next. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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Problem saving screen profile file.
On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 07:58:18 -0400, Ron Hardin
wrote: Maybe some service has it open. Try in safe mode, just to limit what starts up. I tried that but Spyder won't run in safe mode. It can't find any monitors so shuts down. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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Problem saving screen profile file.
| 2) Could the ICM file be saved elsewhere and then
| just copied into the folder? | | I've got no access to or control over the software which determines | where it is trying to save( | C:\Windows\System32\Spool\drivers\color\... This is a longshot, but I wonder about moving out the other ICMs temporarily. Also maybe look for a config file or settings. It's possible the software is operating on its own erroneous info. (This is really grasping at straws, but I'm thinking something like a recorded value indicating that it needs to replace the Dell ICM. It seems reasonable to suspect a bug in the logic of the software.) Another possibility, after backing up ICMs, might be to try FileAssassin to unlock the files without deleting them. I've had good luck with it for getting rid of weird locks, like where I accidentally click two things almost simultaneously and end up with a file I can't delete. FA is mainly for deleting such stuck files, but it can also be used to unlock without deleting. (If you have an ICM that won't move that might be a sign of a faulty file lock.) https://www.malwarebytes.org/fileassassin/ |
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Problem saving screen profile file.
On 8/9/2015 9:54 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 17:40:18 -0400, Alan Browne wrote: 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? Oh yes. I seem to have gone up several steps in the technical competence of my contacts in my discussions. Right now they are either enjoying the weekend or trying to work out what to do next. I know this sounds crazy, but earlier up the thread you mentioned that you had two graphics cards. Is there some way of disabling the on board card, or changing the priority? I wonder if they are fighting each other. -- PeterN |
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Problem saving screen profile file.
In article , PeterN
wrote: Have you contacted the Spyder people? Oh yes. I seem to have gone up several steps in the technical competence of my contacts in my discussions. Right now they are either enjoying the weekend or trying to work out what to do next. I know this sounds crazy, but earlier up the thread you mentioned that you had two graphics cards. Is there some way of disabling the on board card, or changing the priority? I wonder if they are fighting each other. spyder has handled multiple displays since a very long time ago. |
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Problem saving screen profile file.
On 8/10/2015 12:03 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , PeterN wrote: Have you contacted the Spyder people? Oh yes. I seem to have gone up several steps in the technical competence of my contacts in my discussions. Right now they are either enjoying the weekend or trying to work out what to do next. I know this sounds crazy, but earlier up the thread you mentioned that you had two graphics cards. Is there some way of disabling the on board card, or changing the priority? I wonder if they are fighting each other. spyder has handled multiple displays since a very long time ago. And that has what to do with graphics card conflict? -- PeterN |
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Problem saving screen profile file.
In article , PeterN
wrote: I know this sounds crazy, but earlier up the thread you mentioned that you had two graphics cards. Is there some way of disabling the on board card, or changing the priority? I wonder if they are fighting each other. spyder has handled multiple displays since a very long time ago. And that has what to do with graphics card conflict? seriously? spyder handles more than one display. that means it handles more than one graphics card. |
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Problem saving screen profile file.
On 2015-08-10 13:39, nospam wrote:
In article , PeterN wrote: I know this sounds crazy, but earlier up the thread you mentioned that you had two graphics cards. Is there some way of disabling the on board card, or changing the priority? I wonder if they are fighting each other. spyder has handled multiple displays since a very long time ago. And that has what to do with graphics card conflict? seriously? spyder handles more than one display. that means it handles more than one graphics card. Single cards often drive multiple displays with separate profiles for each display. Such is the case here. |
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