F.lux stopped working after clearing caches folder
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Somewhere in this forum, there is a thread about locked color profiles in 10.13 - basically any "non-display" profile (like the one called "sRGB") seemed to make the color system fail and disallowed switching away from it, which made all kinds of things fail. I recall people worked around it by moving the files away and then back, but I also thought it had been fixed a few months ago.
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That's very interesting, thanks for mentioning that. I will try to find the posts you're referring to.
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@Sisyphus-Hektor looks like maybe here: https://forum.justgetflux.com/topic/4184/f-lux-not-supported-in-macos-high-sierra/26
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@herf I'm having the same issue as @mfield had in that my display is stuck on sRGB and the corresponding .icc file found at /System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/sRGB Profile.icc can neither be moved nor deleted.
Now that I have a better idea of what's going on, I will browse around the web for a solution. I will post here if I find anything.
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@herf Just to be clear that when I say my display is stuck on sRGB, I mean two things: 1) whichever new color profile I choose, it makes no difference on my screen; 2) my new choice isn't saved so the next time I open system preferences, I still get sRGB.
To make sure we're all on the same page here, I've uploaded a Safari screenshot to show you what I mean by a "blue tint."
Is it me or is this blue tint murder to the eyes?
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In the other thread people thought it had cleared up as of 10.13.3 and 10.13.4. Apparently that's not true.
I don't have any more knowledge about it, other than this bug seems to break color calibration generally in macOS, and it is not really f.lux-specific (it just affects f.lux because we are the most noticeable color calibration change).
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Yes I know @herf. Thanks for helping out despite this not being a F.lux-specific issue. I'll contact Apple support again on the off-chance a more knowledgeable technician might have a few useful tricks up their sleeve.
Will post back here if I hit jackpot.
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Don't suppose you hit that jackpot? Seem to have the exact same problem and none of the suggested solutions I've found so far have worked, including deleting the sRGB profile. Have a blue tint and F.lux doesn't change the display at all.
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If anyone else ever encounters this problem, the only solution that worked for me was to re-download and reinstall High Sierra, which reinstated the correct display colour profile and both removed the blue tint that had taken over the display and allowed F.lux to work again.
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I have the same situation. I haven't figured it out yet.
