[X4U] Display profile corruption

[Nick Scalise]

---- eleventhvolume <colin at eleventhvolume.com> wrote: 
> I'm experiencing an annoying problem. Everytime I switch back to my regular
> account from the other user on my laptop I find my screen resetting to a
> washed out, fairly low contrast aspect. When I try to recalibrate via the
> Color tab in the Displays System Preference, I'm informed that 'The factory
> profile for the display could not be displayed'. None of the listed profiles
> can be opened. 
> 
> Someone on this list kindly recommended that I repair permissions in disk
> utility and restart. This works, but I don't want to have to restart every
> time I have to switch between users. Can anybody suggest a longer term fix?
> Thanks for your time.

It's a known bug. Affects me all the time. 

A log out of all accounts will fix it. No need to repair permissions or reboot.

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Nick Scalise
nickscalise at cox.net