My backup printer profiles are not corrupt, they are from a total back up made a few days after the profiles were initially made months ago.
My drives are fine, all 5 of them, in a raid configuration.
My display profile is updated once a month and not an issue here.
Maybe I wasn't too clear in my initial post as sometimes I just don't describe the problems correctly.
Only the "Spyder3Print ICC" profiles disappear, all my other custom profiles wether they are display, printer (downloaded canned profiles), etc. stay intact in the same windows folder.
I happens with both Nikon Capture NX2 and Photoshop CS4. I can run weeks without any problems, do some printing in a session and then the hang, relaunch the program instantly, no Spyder profiles; reboot, no Spyder profiles; restore the system to a day earlier, no Spyder profiles.
The strangest issue here is why would it be so selective to Spyder profiles and not the other printer profiles???
I'm asking on this forum as I was hoping someone may suggest why just the "Spyder profiles" are affected.
At 09:41 AM 7/13/2009, you wrote:
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On Jul 12, 2009, at 11:35 PM, Bob Petruska wrote:
> I'm using Windows Vista SP2 and when using my photo editing programs
>; Nikon NX2 or Photoshop CS4 and about to print, the program crashes
> sometimes. When it does just my Spyder3Print ICC profiles disappear
> from the windows/system32/spool/drivers/color location. All other
> ICC profile remain intact. I was lucky to retrieve these lost
> profiles (10 profiles) from a backup and saved them to a disc to use
> each time this strange thing happens. This has taken place a few
> times over the last few months.
>
> I can see an application crashing, but to permanently erase the
> profiles from the windows profile directory just doesn't seem right.
>
> Any suggestions?
Not sure you are lucky to save profiles that are crashing your
computer. If, for some reason, a profile or more than one profile,
become corrupted, usually due to disk errors, then you should delete
it, (ideally delete all profiles except the required sRGB one), and
start over. Starting over doesn't take long, it just means reprofiling
your displays, which you should do every month anyways, and rebuilding
any printer profiles from the measurement set that they were built
from initially. On the Mac you can check that profiles are okay using
the ColorSync Profile Tool, but there is no OS-provided equivalent
under Windows.
Oh, and keep good backups of your data, as you may be seeing early
signs of disk issues...
C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
CDTobie@...
Datacolor
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