ChromIQ v3.13.12-beta.4

Tidier project folders (#127). A run folder used to collect up to 30+ files
side by side; now everything you print, install or keep stays right at the
top, and the paperwork lives in three self-explaining folders. Your
existing projects are tidied automatically the first time you open them —
nothing is deleted or renamed, your own files are never touched, and your
measurements and profiles stay exactly where they were.

Cleaner run folders

• New sub-folders in every run, with a fixed meaning:
  • reports/ — things ChromIQ tells you: quality-check reports, the
    re-measure list, and the dated measurement reports (which already lived
    here).
  • exports/ — files made for other programs: the i1Profiler patch set
    and the plain colour list. Same name and meaning as the project-level
    exports/ folder (Knut's naming).
  • cache/ — temporary working files from the tools (scanner recognition
    copies, diagnostic images). Always safe to delete; ChromIQ can recreate
    everything in it (Knut's idea).
• The calibration chart's hand-off files get the same treatment in
  cal/exports/.
• The chart pages, your measurement (.ti3) and your profile (.icc) stay
  at the top of the run folder, exactly where they were — the measuring and
  profile-building tools require it, and they're the files you actually want.

Automatic tidy-up of existing projects

• Opening a project made by an older ChromIQ reorganises it in place: only
  files ChromIQ itself wrote are moved (by exact name pattern), nothing is
  overwritten, and an interrupted tidy-up simply finishes on the next open.
• A project last used by a newer ChromIQ opens with a friendly "please
  update" note instead of half-working.

The folder guide learned the new layout

• The "Where are my files?" card (and the Where are my files.txt in every
  project) is rebuilt folder-first: the three files that matter on top, then
  what each folder means in one sentence, then every file in detail. The
  text file is refreshed automatically when a project is tidied.
• The guide now also covers the profile-verification files
  (.x3d.html + x3dom.*), which were missing before.

Fixed

• Renaming a project now also renames a calibration chart's export files
  (…-cal-colours.txt, …-cal-i1profiler.*) — they silently kept the old
  name before.

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Installation: Open the DMG, drag ChromIQ to Applications, eject, then launch.

ChromIQ is ad-hoc signed (not notarized). On macOS Sonoma+ the right-click → Open trick often fails with "Apple cannot check it for malicious software." If that happens, remove the quarantine flag in Terminal:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/ChromIQ.app

Then double-click as normal.

Requires macOS 13+ (Ventura) and ArgyllCMS 3.5.0 at /Applications/Argyll/bin.

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