PowerBook LDC Color Profile

My display became noticably washed out looking. System Preferences>Display>Color will not allow me to choose a custom profile... I keep getting a warning 'beep'. Clicking on the Calibrate button displays an error dialog that says "Cannot calibrate display. Factory profile could not be found." Yet, when I go to Library>ColorSync>Profile>Display, the root LCD Monitor profile is there. Back in System Preferences, the Generic RGB is selected under Display>Color and it will not allow me to choose any other profile.

I had the same problem a few weeks back - my desktop image, dock and finder icons all were suddenly really washed-out looking (I didn't try calibrating my display, so I don't know if I had that problem as well).
I traced the problem to corrupted preference files. In the folder ~/Library/Preferences/, try trashing the files com.apple.desktop.plist, com.apple.dock.plist, and com.apple.finder.plist, then log out of your user account and log back in. This should restore the proper colours (although your settings for those three items will also be reset to their default values, so you'll need to set them again manually through System Preferences).
I suspect the problem with calibrating the display may be a preference file issue as well. If the above steps don't fix that problem, then quit the Display Calibrator, trash the file com.apple.ColorSyncCalibrator.plist, then try calibrating again. Again, preferences will be reset to default values, but hopefully the problem will be solved.

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audi454 wrote:
1. AdobeRGB
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Sent from my iPhone
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Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000024
VM Regions Near 0x24:
--> __PAGEZERO             0000000000000000-0000000000001000 [    4K] ---/--- SM=NUL /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
    VM_ALLOCATE            0000000000001000-0000000000055000 [ 336K] ---/--- SM=NUL
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.apple.CoreGraphics                  0x9678ec6c color_space_create_adobe_rgb_1998 + 28
1   com.apple.CoreGraphics                  0x9666dd70 CGColorSpaceCreateAdobeRGB1998 + 32
2   com.apple.CoreGraphics                  0x9642b46b CGColorSpaceCreateWithName + 652
3   com.apple.geode                         0x01079d4a +[DGColorSpace initialize] + 1018
4   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x90267600 _class_initialize + 305
5   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x902674c8 prepareForMethodLookup + 78
6   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x90267337 lookUpMethod + 81
7   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x902672e1 _class_lookupMethodAndLoadCache3 + 47
8   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x90266ac1 objc_msgSend + 81
9   com.apple.geode                         0x010798a0 +[DGContextMgr newBitmapContextCached:accelerated:] + 61
10 com.apple.geode                         0x0107985e +[DGContextMgr newBitmapContextWithAcceleration:] + 49
11 com.apple.RedRock                       0x02647bf6 -[Godot loadGeode] + 1261
12 com.apple.RedRock                       0x026448a8 -[Godot init] + 1571
13 com.apple.RedRock                       0x026437d2 +[Godot initGodotApp] + 108
14 com.apple.iPhoto                        0x00083be8 0x55000 + 191464
15 com.apple.iPhoto                        0x0008236b 0x55000 + 185195
16 com.apple.Foundation                    0x9a3bc4cf __NSFireDelayedPerform + 413
17 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95ed1416 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 22
18 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95ed0db5 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 709
19 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95eb5bc2 __CFRunLoopRun + 1842
20 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95eb502a CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 378
21 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95eb4e9b CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123
22 com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x9052af5a RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 242
23 com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x9052abf5 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 162
24 com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x9052ab44 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 88
25 com.apple.AppKit                        0x923c39aa _DPSNextEvent + 724
26 com.apple.AppKit                        0x923c31dc -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 119
27 com.apple.AppKit                        0x923b963c -[NSApplication run] + 855
28 com.apple.AppKit                        0x9235c666 NSApplicationMain + 1053
29 com.apple.iPhoto                        0x00064c99 0x55000 + 64665
30 com.apple.iPhoto                        0x000642e5 0x55000 + 62181
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718 For help or questions on the OS X Recovery Process
-Once in the OS X Recovery from the Mac OS X Utilities Pane, I selected reinstall and then I selected my current Hard Drive. Luckily by doing this (not that I was aware or anything, but none of my files or folders were deleted and it only reinstalled Mountain Lion and whatever else it needed)
-This process took about an hour and once finished, I restarted my computer
-I logged back in to my account but did not attempt iPhoto at this time. Instead I immediately checked to make sure that 10.8.3 was what was reinstalled back on my Mac. I then checked for Software Updates which I had a few and installed these updates.
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-I did a check check of some Adobe CS6 Apps just to verify they were opening and working correctly
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I am sorry this is such a long post but for people like me who are not professionals in the computer department, sometimes it's good to "dumb" things done so that us "average joes" can understand a little better. Hopefully this will work for those who are having issues like mine. Thanks for all the help from everyone from my previous posts.

Tom:
To help prevent loss like you experienced see the tip at the end of my signature.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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