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Anyone had find the fix for the "blue" color after 10.4.8?

Do you guys notice a difference between the two?



Top one is my original accnt when upgraded to 10.4.8.

Bottom one is a new one I just made 10 min ago to test.
 
iMeowbot said:
Okay, can you check the First Aid thing as above?
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I get this in mine:
Searching for profiles...
Checking 215 profiles...
/Library/Printers/hp/designjet/hp_designjet_pm.plugin/Contents/Resources/ICCProfiles/designjet/HP30Prcsb_drv.icc
Tag 'B2A0': Reserved field not zero.
Verify done - found 1 bad profile.



Can you tell me what this means? Obviously somehting to do with my HP printer? But could this be affecting my display problem? I too am using the default "Color LCD" profile. This error doesn't seem to mention that one :( Is this just a coincedence and now I have another weird problem too? :(
 
sadatkarim said:
Do you guys notice a difference between the two?



Top one is my original accnt when upgraded to 10.4.8.

Bottom one is a new one I just made 10 min ago to test.
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Hmm, this issue is elusive, but alas' we can only see the things normally. You'll have to take a digital image of your computer monitor and upload it here.
 
sonictonic said:
Can you tell me what this means? Obviously somehting to do with my HP printer? But could this be affecting my display problem? I too am using the default "Color LCD" profile. This error doesn't seem to mention that one :( Is this just a coincedence and now I have another weird problem too? :(
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We can probably ignore the printer profile problems for now. It won't hurt to go ahead and ask the utility to repair, but it's not going to help out with the display problem.

200-ish sounds too low for the number of profiles. It's fine if you intentionally slimmed down your OS X by leaving out some printer drivers, but a full install should leave you with 900-ish.

But let's put that aside for now....

Instead, let's see if the display calibration bits are doing their job. Back under the Color tab of of Display prefs, let's try turning off the checkbox for "show profiles for this display only". Hopefully this will give you more possible default profiles. Try clicking on some of the "wrong" profiles and see if the display appearance changes. Do any of those possibilities show you anything closer to the correct appearance?
 
Well the reason I don't have many profiles is because when I first got my MacBook I ran a utility to remove unused printer stuff and languages...

The only profile "for my display" is the Color LCD one I am on...
 
sonictonic said:
The only profile "for my display" is the Color LCD one I am on...
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Are there any profiles "not" for your display if you uncheck that box? Those are the ones that would be useful to try here... I want to see if your display pays attention to profile changes at all.
 
Okay, so even though the results are wrong, that the displays change at all tells us that ColorSync is working (or at least trying to work). Apple did make some changes there according to the release notes, but they don't always list every change they make :/

And there are both MacBook and MacBook Pro machines experiencing this? that's especially weird, given the different video hardware...
 
iMeowbot said:
Okay, so even though the results are wrong, that the displays change at all tells us that ColorSync is working (or at least trying to work). Apple did make some changes there according to the release notes, but they don't always list every change they make :/

And there are both MacBook and MacBook Pro machines experiencing this? that's especially weird, given the different video hardware...
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No issue whatsoever with this tent. :S Weird.
 
After more careful inspection, making a new user accnt does seem to correct the problem.

The specialist was right methinks. =/

This is a pain, I don't want to create a new account and set everything up again.
 
The problem is gone!!:)

Here are all the things that I made:
1- Created new account. (The new account also had the blue color).
2- In Onyx I executed every possible action it has. (I made this at the Admins account)
3- I moved all the thing that are possible to move in the Display Pane (At Preferences)
4- Restart mac (things seemed the same as always, still having the blue color).
5- Logged out of admin account. Enter New account I had created (step 1).
6- Returned to Admin account (made the hole process of opening the Mirror widget to get rid of the whine) and after getting the mac from sleep the blue color is gone.:) I didn't tried to open safari, itunes, etc. to check if the problem continued (before putting the mac to sleep for the whine hack to function).

Now I am completely sure that I wasn't insane. The difference is great!

As of the steps, maybe it was a combination of steps, maybe it was pure coincidenze. But that was all the things that I made.

Hope it helps,

Roco.
 
Okay so sada says a new user account fixed the problem. In my experience, the blue tint was fixed with the new user account also. Roco says the new user account did NOT fix the issue. GRR. This is pretty weird stuff.

Like sada, I do not wanna setup all my stuff all over again. It's not just a couple quick things... I have almost 200 files in my Prefs folder :(

I'm gonna keep my fingers crossed that someone finds a solution sometime soon. This is what I get for downloading the update so quickly after it came out. Boy did I learn my lesson.
 
Roco said:
The problem is gone!!:)

Here are all the things that I made:
1- Created new account. (The new account also had the blue color).
2- In Onyx I executed every possible action it has. (I made this at the Admins account)
3- I moved all the thing that are possible to move in the Display Pane (At Preferences)
4- Restart mac (things seemed the same as always).
5- Logged out of admin account. Enter New account I had created (step 1).
6- Returned to Admin account (made the hole process of opening the Mirror widget to get rid of the whine) and after getting the mac from sleep the blue color is gone.:) I didn't tried to open safari, itunes, etc. to check if the problem continued (before putting the mac to sleep for the whine hack to function).

Now I am completely sure that I wasn't insane. The difference is great!

As of the steps, maybe it was a combination of steps, maybe it was pure coincidenze. But that was all the things that I made.

Hope it helps,

Roco.
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Can you explain that last step again? I didn't have any whine so Im not sure what to do there.
 
sadatkarim said:
Can you explain that last step again? I didn't have any whine so Im not sure what to do there.
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For the MB's that have the "whine" (the processor making noise), one way to fix it is to open the Mirro widget (the whine stops), then yo close the Mirror widget (whine starts again), you put the mac to sleep, open it, and the whine is gone till' the next restart. So the basic thing in that step I would guess is to put the mac to sleep.

Roco.
 
sadatkarim said:
just tried roco's fix. no luck for me. =/
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Sorry to hear this.:(

If what causes this are files at the Preferences folder. Is there any chance that when I executed Onyx commands of cleaning caches and making the monthly maintenance a file from Preference folder have been deleted?
 
Ok i just calibrated my screen to reduce the Green. It somehow is like before. Macbook users note....try choosing the defult lcd setting...you will notice the strong blue tint. Somehow Apple has screwed up the whole calibration / color setting process. They better send a fix immediately. :mad:
 
This is annoying. It makes my eyes hurt.

EDIT: HERE IS A FIX: Someone went ahead and uploaded the original color profile to rapidshare. When you download it, go ahead and put it in
Library/ColorSync/Profiles

So so so so so so so so so so so much better:

http://rapidshare.de/files/34921708/Color_LCD-4271780.icc.html

When you go into the display settings to change it, it is also called Color LCD, but you will definitely be able to tell which one is the right one.
 
sonictonic said:
...So basically my choices according to him are, re-setup all of my preferences and toss the old folder now on my desktop... or drag each preference file from the old one back into the new current one, ONE BY ONE and logging out and back in each time to find the culprit...
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A trick to doing this if a situation ever happens like this again:

1) take half of the files and put them back
2) logout/logon
3) if problem is back try the other half
4) if the other half works fine you've now reduced your set by half in only 2 runs
5) if the other half doesn't work it's more than one file causing the issue
6) if it's more than one file keep reducing your subsets to quarters, eighths, sixteenths, etc...
7) repeat using the remaining smaller subsets as you eliminate candidates

If all goes well this takes the one by one approach down to much more manageable levels since if you only have one offending file on each run you eliminate half of your possible suspects.
 
it5five said:
This is annoying. It makes my eyes hurt.

EDIT: HERE IS A FIX: Someone went ahead and uploaded the original color profile to rapidshare. When you download it, go ahead and put it in
Library/ColorSync/Profiles

So so so so so so so so so so so much better:

http://rapidshare.de/files/34921708/Color_LCD-4271780.icc.html

When you go into the display settings to change it, it is also called Color LCD, but you will definitely be able to tell which one is the right one.
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omg...now I remember how mi display looked before the update...it definitely is different and better. Thanks it5five. Here are some pics that show the difference:



In real life it is much more noticeable. Look closely and you will se the bottom one is kind of blue.
 
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