Cannot locate Monitor Curves file: None

[davidh]

I must have done some mistake when I moved the preferences folder and other settings.
Now when I open PWP I get a message: "Cannot locate Monitor Curves file: None"

I have copied all the transformation setting folders (some 60 of them) including Preferences
from previous location
c:\Users\<my user name>\Documents\Picture Window Pro\

to new location
C:\users\<my user name>\AppData\Local\Picture Window Pro

and this is the location settings from my Preferences file:
default_settings_folder ″C:\Users\My Name\AppData\Local\Picture Window Pro″

The same path shows in the Preferences dialog box under File menu.

When I load a monitor curve, I am directed to the folder Monitor Curves in this new location. When I save a monitor curve, it is saved to the same folder.

Still I get the message. Something must be wrong.

[jsachs]

Not to worry, nothing is wrong. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Please see my note about the 2-Apr-2018 release - you need to recreate your color management settings file -- the None is from the old version based on the settings for what Monitor Curves to load on startup. Just run File/Color Management and make sure you change something and change it back to force the settings file to be saved when you exit.

[davidh]

Solved, thanks. I somehow missed that information and concentrated on the changes of Preferences.

Talking about Monitor Curves, was it really necessary to remove the their command from the File menu? It was handy to have it there if you use them fairly often (but not that often to unnecessarily take monitor space), which I do when the time to print comes.

Also, would it make sense to include the current monitor curve, if any is loaded, to the Workspace for later use on closing PWP? This way it would not be necessary to remember which curve was the last loaded and used.
PWP7 remembers it and it helps you for example to know which one was the best for the last group of images.

[jsachs]

I was actually surprised when I looked at the code that there were two different ways to get to Monitor Curves - they seem logically to fall within color management and the File menu is pretty crowded so I removed the file menu version.

You make a good point about workflows, but the same could also be said about many of the other color management settings. I currently save the color management settings is script files and issue a warning if they don't match. I could do the same with monitor curves. On mismatch, I suppose I could give the user the option of restoring the old settings or not, although is some of the profiles or monitor curves referenced at not present they could not be restored.

What worries me a lot about automatically restoring monitor curves and other color management settings is that if you forgot you set them for some special purpose they can really make a mess of your files when you revert to normal workflow and don't realize special purpose settings are in effect.