Losing the color palette

At 05:10 -0700 12/06/2007, andrew.kaizen wrote:
>I hope you guys can help. From time to time I lose the information
>contained in the color palette that's accessible in most apps.

You may find this article useful:

Secrets of the Color Picker

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2005/09/colorpickersecrets/

and this one:

Transfer Color Picker swatches between Macs

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060607063851264

"After digging around, I found that the swatches were stored in a
preference file in your home folder:
~/Library/Colors/NSColorPanelSwatches.plist"

Cheers,

Miraz


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On Jun 12, 2007, at 8:10 AM, andrew.kaizen wrote:

> Is there a file somewhere that I can back up, and then drop back
> into place to restore this information next time I lose it?

It looks like you need to back up ~/Library/Colors

And more specifically, ~/Library/Colors/NSColorPanelSwatches.plist

This is implied by making changes to the color palatte while running
the following command in Terminal:

     $ sudo fs_usage | grep -i plist

See `man fs_usage` for more details.


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Chris Devers

Hi Andrew,

This may seem to be a long way around the problem you mention, but it works
for me, especially when I am working on several projects at once, each of
which has its own batch of particular colours (pardon the non-American
spelling! :-) ).

I open a special Photoshop file and I simply paint little swatches of colour
on them. Each project has its own line of colours, appropriately labelled.
The swatches can be pretty small, just large enough to find with the eye
dropper tool. This swatch file is tiny so you can keep it open all the time
while you work on your projects, and just access it whenever you need too.
The file is always on my desktop so I can find it quickly when needed.

As I said, it sounds cumbersome, but once you have set it up, the system
works well. If you back it up on another drive, you should always have it
ready to use.

Paul