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Aardt
Aardt
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April 8, 2021
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Illustrator keeps on defaulting to standard colour setting.

  • April 8, 2021
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My Illustrator keeps on defaulting to the standard colour setting. I have all the latest updates installed and run MacOs 11.2.3. I have set up the colour settings in Bridge, but still every time I open a file in Illustrator it defaults to the standard colour setting - Emulate Adobe® Illustrator® 6.0. If I open a file and work on it, I have to change the colour setting every time, then as soon as I jump to Photoshop and back to Illustrator, it changes back again. It would be great if you can solve this issue, as its getting a bit frustrating.

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Correct answer ZooN_

Hi Guys

 

Just to let you know, I have not had a single problem since I deleted the cache file, so this definitely worked.

 

Thanks for the help, all the best.

 

Aardt


Hi Aardt!

 

Thanks for coming back on this topic. Same here for me too, no issues since deleting the cache file. Happy days!

 

Cheers

_Z_

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Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 8, 2021

There is a bug caused by the recent Photoshop update. It sets your Illustrator Color Settings to Emulate Illustrator 6, which turns color management off.

If that is the case, use the CC app to revert Photoshop to the Previous version (22.2.0) and then change your Color Settings to what you want it to be.

See also:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/42892902-illustrator-v25-2-1-color-profile-keeps-changing-t

Aardt
AardtAuthor
Participant
April 8, 2021

Thank you so much for your reply Ton, I really appreciate it. Seems like this issue has been around for a while as a lot of people are struggling with it, its driving me a bit crazy 🙂

 

Again, thank you for replying - I'll try your suggestion and see if it helps.

 

Have a great day.

Z
ZooN_
Inspiring
April 8, 2021

Hi Aardt!

 

Exit out of all running Adobe apps and then delete the following file:

 

~/Library/Preferences/Adobe/Color/ACEConfigCache2.lst

 

After that you can select your preferred color settings and they should stick. I would recommend doing that in Adobe Brige so it's remains consistent across all installed Adobe apps.

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