Trouble with Argyll

[pkkelly]

Is there an Argyll guru on the forum? I've been making my printer profiles with an i1Pro2 and ArgyllCMS. I hadn't had to make any for maybe a year but I had to replace my Pro1000 so I needed new profiles. But the Argyll appears to run through the whole process very normally, all the way to the end of the colprof but instead of depositing a nice new icc file in my home folder it just gives me a blank folder icon with no file extension at all. It's just an empty folder. I am using the LittleArgyllGui, as I'm only quasi literate with the C prompt. I'm wondering if, not having done it for awhile, I'm forgetting something. But my experience in the past is that if something has not been entered correctly you will not get all the way through the program. Argyll will balk. Any ideas are appreciated.

[degrub]

i think the creator of Argyll is around from time to time.
You can PM him directly.
His handle is -
GWGill

[pkkelly]

Thanks. I'll try that. But I'm going to reload Argyll first.

[GWGill]

But the Argyll appears to run through the whole process very normally, all the way to the end of the colprof but instead of depositing a nice new icc file in my home folder it just gives me a blank folder icon with no file extension at all.

I'm not sure I can help you, since the problem is almost certainly something to do with system configuration and LittleArgyllGui. The way to diagnose this is to look at exactly how colprof is being invoked. What parameters is it being given, that affect where the resulting profile is going to land ?
What happens if you run colprof "by hand" ?

[ Your report seems familiar, but I can't recall exactly where I've seen it before, or precisely what the resolution was, since it wasn't anything to do with ArgyllCMS directly. Something to do with how the compute environment was configured. ]

[pkkelly]

Thanks for that reply, GWGill. I suspect that as well, as colprof seems to run and finish totally normally. But LittleArgyllGui is so simple to use I can't see how I can be overlooking something there. Maybe I should reload that? Is it kept up to date with Windows updates?

[GWGill]

Is it kept up to date with Windows updates?

You'd have to ask Russell Cottrell that.

[degrub]

You could try "Run as ADMIN" when you invoke the GUI program. It might just be a permissions issue.

[pkkelly]

Okay, I'll try that. But the GUI has been updated and will require some fiddling to get the new version running. I'll report back.