[X4U] Display profile corruption

[John Baltutis]

On 04/28/06, 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.

Check SysPrefs->Universal Access->Seeing and ensure that the Display Enhance
Contrast setting is for Normal.

As for the profiles. Launch ColorSync Utility.app, Profile First Aid, and
verify/repair the profiles. Then, restart and give the Display prefpane another
whirl.