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greless
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March 11, 2019
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Unable to coordinate color Settings because the color Settings file cannot be found

  • March 11, 2019
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the photoshop pop up a dialog box of  "Unable to coordinate color Settings because the color Settings file cannot be found" when i first entered photoshop.so ,the where is color Settings file?

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    Correct answer D Fosse

    The Color Settings file itself is under your user account (C > Users > your name > app data etc.) together with all the other preference files and user settings, but it's not useful to you. You can't edit that file directly.

    What you do is open Photoshop and edit your color settings in Edit > Color Settings. If you can do that, and any changes stick when you next open Photoshop, everything's fine and there's no problem. But don't change anything unless you know why you want to change it. Don't do it because "someone on the internet says so". They're almost certainly wrong.

    If your color settings don't stick, you have a folder permissions issue. Your user account doesn't have the necessary privileges. That's an operating system issue that has nothing to do with Photoshop.

    And again, if you only have Photoshop any color setting "synchronization" is moot and irrelevant.

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    D Fosse
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    Community Expert
    March 11, 2019

    That setting is only relevant if you have other CC applications installed as well. It's not applicable for Lightroom.

    If you only have Photoshop it's moot. Just go into Edit > Color Settings and set as needed - but note, if you're not absolutely sure of what you're doing, don't change anything! The default settings are safe, but any change has the potential to make a complete mess.

    That said, you shouldn't get that message at all if you haven't actively invoked it. If you do, it could be a folder permissions issue. That's something you fix in the operating system.

    greless
    grelessAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 11, 2019

    Thank you for your reply,but whether there is such a color file exist ?

    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    March 11, 2019

    The Color Settings file itself is under your user account (C > Users > your name > app data etc.) together with all the other preference files and user settings, but it's not useful to you. You can't edit that file directly.

    What you do is open Photoshop and edit your color settings in Edit > Color Settings. If you can do that, and any changes stick when you next open Photoshop, everything's fine and there's no problem. But don't change anything unless you know why you want to change it. Don't do it because "someone on the internet says so". They're almost certainly wrong.

    If your color settings don't stick, you have a folder permissions issue. Your user account doesn't have the necessary privileges. That's an operating system issue that has nothing to do with Photoshop.

    And again, if you only have Photoshop any color setting "synchronization" is moot and irrelevant.