---
title: CMProfLoc
framework: Application Services
role: symbol
role_heading: Union
platforms: [macOS 10.0+]
path: applicationservices/1560460-cmprofloc
---

# CMProfLoc

Defines a union that identifies the location of a profile. 

## Declaration

```occ
typedef union CMProfLoc {
    ...
} CMProfLoc;
```

## Discussion

You use a union of type `CMProfLoc` to identify the location of a profile. You specify the union in the `u` field of the data type [CMProfileLocation](cmprofilelocation.md). Your application passes a pointer to a `CMProfileLocation` structure when it calls the [CMOpenProfile](colorsync_manager/1804853-cmopenprofile.md) function to identify the location of a profile or the [CMNewProfile](colorsync_manager/1804911-cmnewprofile.md), [CMCopyProfile](colorsync_manager/1804870-cmcopyprofile.md) , or [CWNewLinkProfile](colorsync_manager/1804915-cwnewlinkprofile.md) functions to specify the location for a newly created profile.

You also pass a pointer to a `CMProfileLocation` structure to the [NCMGetProfileLocation](colorsync_manager/1804889-ncmgetprofilelocation.md) and [CMGetProfileLocation](colorsync_manager/1804885-cmgetprofilelocation.md) functions to get the location of an existing profile. The `NCMGetProfileLocation` function is available starting with ColorSync version 2.5. It differs from its predecessor, `CMGetProfileLocation`, in that the newer version has a parameter for the size of the location structure for the specified profile. 

## Topics

### Fields

- [handleLoc](1560460-cmprofloc/1560221-handleloc.md)
- [pathLoc](1560460-cmprofloc/1560356-pathloc.md)
- [bufferLoc](1560460-cmprofloc/1560292-bufferloc.md)