If you have one of X-Rite's ColorMunki Photo or Design devices, you may have experienced problems with monitor profiles which prove too dark, following calibration using the device.
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Our software library provides a free download of ColorMunki Smile 1.0 for Mac. This free software for Mac OS X was originally developed by X-Rite, Incorporated. The current setup file available for download occupies 65.7 MB on disk. The most popular version among the application users is 1.0.
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion uses ColorMunki Photo software version 1.1.1. Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite uses ColorMunki Photo software version 1.2.1. RAM 512 MB (2 GB recommended). Download, or automatic software update User must have administrator rights to install and uninstall the application.
- To install the ColorMunki Photo application, double click on the ColorMunki Photo Installer package and follow the onscreen instructions. Do not connect measurement devices until the software installation is complete and the system has restarted.
According to X-Rite, this can occur on Macs which have previously had version 1.1.1 of the ColorMunki software installed, but have then been updated to the current versions, 1.2.0 or 1.2.1. That could include Macs which have been migrated from others which had 1.1.1 installed too: migration could easily have installed fragments of an old installation.
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X-Rite advises that uninstalling version 1.1.1 will probably not have the expected effect of removing all its components, and updating to 1.2.0 certainly doesn't.
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X-Rite advises that uninstalling version 1.1.1 will probably not have the expected effect of removing all its components, and updating to 1.2.0 certainly doesn't.
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If you are using version 1.2.0 (or later) and previously had 1.1.1 installed, you should disconnect your ColorMunki and manually remove any remaining files. The files and folders to be removed include:
- /Applications/ColourMunki Photo (or Design) folder complete
- /Library/Application Support/X-Rite and ColorMunki folders
- /Library/ColorPickers/colormunki colorpicker
- /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.x-rite. files (all)
- /Library/LaunchAgents/com.x-rite. files (all)
- /Library/Frameworks/X-Rite… files (4 in all)
- /Library/Logs/colormunki etc. files, including colormunki.log, DisplayLogger.txt, MeasuredPatchesLogger.text, SumoTrayLogger.txt, etc.
- ~/Library/Application Support/ColorMunki folder
- ~/Library/Logs/colormunki etc. files, including colormunki.log, DisplayLogger.txt, MeasuredPatchesLogger.text, SumoTrayLogger.txt, etc.
- ~/PreferencePanes/XRiteDeviceSeries.prefPane
- ~/Preferences/com.xrite. items
- Open your Users & Groups pane, select the Login Items tab, and remove ColorMunki xxx Tray.
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Once you have done that, restart, and install version 1.2.0 (or the latest available) for ColorMunki Design or 1.2.1 for Photo.
If you install the 1.2.0 software to support a ColorMunki Design device, you may find that you need to download an additional patch for compatibility with El Capitan: the patch is available from here, and detailed in this note.
X-Rite admits that it does not know which part of the 1.1.1 software is causing this problem, or why it is not removed by uninstalling that version.
X-Rite is owned by Danaher Corporation, whose total revenue in 2013 was over $19 billion. Despite making excellent colour measurement hardware, its supporting software is very poorly maintained, to the point where I would not buy any more X-Rite products again.
My thanks to Simon Simpson, who kindly managed to wheedle this information from X-Rite UK.
