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color probs in new panther install
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Jan 22, 2004, 04:53 PM
 
i bought a new 80 gig hard drive to go in my gigabit dual 500 G4. after installing OS 10.3 on it i noticed that some of the colors in icons, finder window buttons with the brushed theme and preference panels were way off and over saturated. the same problem exists in photoshop 7 as well. i had this same problem when installing 10.2 and solved it by deleting a certain color preference file but i can't remember which one.

has only else had this problem and remembers which file it is i need to delete to get everything back to normal?
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Jan 22, 2004, 05:00 PM
 
Have you tried calibrating your monitor in the System Preferences?

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Jan 22, 2004, 05:12 PM
 
yes.

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Jan 22, 2004, 09:58 PM
 
anyone? :[

it's some sort of color preference file.
it took me forever to find the last time this happened.
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Jan 22, 2004, 11:32 PM
 
The blue coloured widgets in Panther's Finder are a slightly different colour to others. This is a known 'issue' with Panther.

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Jan 22, 2004, 11:41 PM
 
my widgets aren't affected. i've searched the forums.

the search function has been down all day for me ;/

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Jan 23, 2004, 08:38 PM
 
this is what it looks like.

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Jan 23, 2004, 10:42 PM
 
I saw this in a Panther Server install...erasing the drive and reinstalling seems to have done it :-/
     
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Jan 24, 2004, 12:51 PM
 
it can be fixed without doing that but i'll do that as a last resort. arg.

keep in mind this happened to me with jaguar too, so it's not just panther.

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Jan 25, 2004, 11:34 PM
 
Go to System Preferences -> Universal Access and make sure the "Enhance Contrast" slider is all the way to the left.

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Jan 26, 2004, 04:19 PM
 
already all the way to the left :/

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Jan 26, 2004, 04:44 PM
 
Try switching display profiles (ColorSync) to force it to re-load the correct one.

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Jan 26, 2004, 05:59 PM
 
Originally posted by tooki:
Try switching display profiles (ColorSync) to force it to re-load the correct one.

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holy ****. you are the man. i am an idiot. i thank you sir. i had show profiles for this display only checked before.

thanks a lot.

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