zimmt Posted May 27, 2019 Share Posted May 27, 2019 I've notice that AD and AP (1.6 and betas) no longer show any custom or printer color profiles in the dropdown list. Must be a Mac OS issue, perhaps permissions? Anyone else with the same issue? What could be a fix for this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted May 28, 2019 Staff Share Posted May 28, 2019 Hi Zimmt, Are these colour profiles still showing in other apps you have installed? If you try to reinstall the colour profiles do they reappear? Thanks Callum Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zimmt Posted May 28, 2019 Author Share Posted May 28, 2019 Running the ColorSync app and deleting and re-adding the color profiles resolved it somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Less Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Can you please tell me where you are storing your custom profiles as I have a similar problem, I.e. custom profiles not visible anywhere! Many thanks Les Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zimmt Posted May 30, 2019 Author Share Posted May 30, 2019 Custom user profiles are saved under ~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/ But make sure to delete the entire ColorSync folder and then open up the ColorSync Utility which recreates it. This helped solve the issue for me of the profiles not showing upon in Affinity. Interestingly there was also a Colors folder (~/Library/Colors) which also contained my profiles... but I deleted it as I found no reference for it online. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 5 hours ago, zimmt said: Interestingly there was also a Colors folder (~/Library/Colors) which also contained my profiles... but I deleted it as I found no reference for it online. The ~/Library/Colors folder does not (normally) contain color profiles. Instead, it is where user-created color palettes are stored. Typically, they are created using the Mac Color Picker but several other apps can create & store color palettes there as well. For example, in the Affinity app's Swatches panel, if you create a "System Palette," it will be stored there as a file with a ".clr" extension. You may also find Image palettes stored there as tiff files or possibly in other formats. Affinity calls them "System Palettes" because any app that can open the Mac Color Picker directly (like via the View menu in Mac Affinity apps) can use them as color pickers. Some apps also provide their own UI to access the palettes stored in this folder, the Affinity apps among them. So in general, it is not a good idea to delete this folder or anything in it unless you are sure it is not something you want or need. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zimmt Posted June 1, 2019 Author Share Posted June 1, 2019 Thank you for the clarification on that. I must have accidentally copied my profiles into the Colors folder (instead of ColorSync) in trying to resolve this issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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