Ueli Schrader
Level 1 (42 points)
Mac OS X

Q: Fonts

I guess I ruined my Symbol font. How can I re-install the symbol font?

After googling it there are so many possible offers of symbol and I got one, which screwed the originally installed one.

Any help would be great

 

Ueli

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Mac mini (Late 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), two screens

Posted on Sep 5, 2016 4:17 PM

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Ueli Schrader

Q: Fonts

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  • by VikingOSX,Helpful

    VikingOSX VikingOSX Sep 6, 2016 3:17 PM in response to Ueli Schrader
    Level 7 (20,544 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 6, 2016 3:17 PM in response to Ueli Schrader

    OS X installs the System fonts, and if you whacked one of these, you can only get it back in the following approach.

    1. Move the current “damaged” Symbol font to your Desktop
    2. Apply the OS X combo update for your specific installed version of OS X
      1. I will post back a link to the proper combo updater, if you share the specific version of OS X that is currently installed.
      2. This will reinstall the System fonts, including the correct Symbol font.

  • by Ueli Schrader,

    Ueli Schrader Ueli Schrader Sep 6, 2016 3:17 PM in response to VikingOSX
    Level 1 (42 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 6, 2016 3:17 PM in response to VikingOSX

    Viking,

     

    nice. I am using a MacOS X Sierra in the beta version. Screen Shot 2016-09-06 at 18.15.49.png

    and yes, I really would like to get the Symbol fonts back to working.

     

    thanks

     

    Ueli

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  • by Ueli Schrader,

    Ueli Schrader Ueli Schrader Sep 6, 2016 3:19 PM in response to Ueli Schrader
    Level 1 (42 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 6, 2016 3:19 PM in response to Ueli Schrader

    PS. I am reacting only at night, because my Mac is at home. During the day at office I am forced to work with the windows machines. So far it is working but I - much - prefer the mac.

    Ueli

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  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Sep 6, 2016 3:30 PM in response to Ueli Schrader
    Level 8 (49,623 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 6, 2016 3:30 PM in response to Ueli Schrader

    Nobody knows what will happen with beta software. You probably should ask this question on the forums you were directed to use when having problems with the beta software.

     

    However, Font Book has a command to Restore Standard Fonts in the File menu. I couldn't tell you if the command still exists in the beta, but it may fix the problem if it is there.

  • by Ueli Schrader,

    Ueli Schrader Ueli Schrader Sep 6, 2016 5:19 PM in response to Barney-15E
    Level 1 (42 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 6, 2016 5:19 PM in response to Barney-15E

    Barney,

    Good tip. I tried it and it said it worked, but not on the symbol font :-(

    Sorry,

     

    Ueli

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  • by dialabrain,

    dialabrain dialabrain Sep 6, 2016 5:36 PM in response to Ueli Schrader
    Level 5 (5,800 points)
    Mac App Store
    Sep 6, 2016 5:36 PM in response to Ueli Schrader

    FWIW, most likely you will have to wait until Sierra is released and the installer will most likely replace the missing font. Of course if you have a backup from before you deleted the font you could do a restore.

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Sep 6, 2016 5:57 PM in response to Ueli Schrader
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    Mac OS X
    Sep 6, 2016 5:57 PM in response to Ueli Schrader

    As I understand your, the font was damaged, not deleted. I don't know how the restore works, but if it finds the font still there, it may not try to replace it. But, I'm not sure I know how to delete it to try to see if Restore would work.

    Reinstalling the OS would be the next thing I would try. Reinstalling from Recovery should be mostly painless.