Fonts got f***ed up after I updated to 10.6.4

Hi,

You may have a corrupted font or a duplicate font that's causing the problem.

Go here for here for help with that.

Font Problems and Mac OS X Management

May also help to empty the Firefox cache.



1. From the Tools menu, select Clear Recent History... .

2. From the Time range to clear: drop-down menu, select the desired range; to clear your entire cache, select Everything.

3. Click the down arrow next to "Details" to choose what history elements to clear. Click Clear Now.

















Carolyn 🙂

i am also having an issue... i can not install any fonts useing FontExplorer... this is a BIG problem. i even tried re installing everything... nope... nothing.

🙂

it has not fixed my issue... all my fonts are missing and unreadable by FontExplorer. i have tried re installing them to no avail.

i am really not sure what to do and this is pretty scary.

gulp

I'm in the same boat. After validating my fonts, I've got 164 "minor problems" and 11 "serious errors".
I've downloaded hundreds of fonts over the years, and don't want to just delete all of them.

Same problems after updating to 10.6.4. I'm a manual font manager... with lots of fonts 'activated' in the Mac OS Fonts folders. Only a few system fonts showed up.

I did the Firefox cache thing... restarted and everything works again. Why on earth is Firefox a solution for this problem?

Updated to 10.6.4 on two Macs, only one had font problems.

Clear the font cache files from the system.

1) Close ALL running applications.

2) Open the Terminal and enter this command:

sudo atsutil databases -remove

3) Close Terminal and IMMEDIATELY restart your Mac.

yup... the firefox thing fixed it... and i don't even use firefox... that is so weird.

Thanks, Kurt.

The "atsutil databases -remove" trick sorted out the font problems I was having in Camino after the 10.6.4 update.

Thanks Kurt, your solution worked for me, too!

Well I did them both and one of them worked, I suspect it was the terminal thing as neither FE or FB would work. Font Book didn't manage to import a lot of my fonts without displaying errors or even quitting and Font Explorer would have the fonts but couldn't activate them.

I wish I found this thread before my last wasted hour.

Thank you profoundly for the fix, I love you!

I installed Font Explorer 2.5.1 and nothing would activate under 10.6.3
All fonts added showed up as "Not Available"

I always follow your recommendations for removing all but the required fonts in the operating system, and due to my prepress environment MUST use our own Helvetica.

I got it to work by turing off the Apple Font Protection in Terminal:
atsutil fontprotection -off

then
atsutil databases -removeUser

then
atsutil server -shutdown

then
atsutil server -ping

Rebooted and Font Explorer worked like a champ.

Thanks for your awesome document on dealing with fonts in OSX, it is invaluable!
Todd Lyall

Thank you, Todd. And thanks for the note on turning off font protection in the Terminal. I've looked at atsutil only in regards to removing the cache files and hadn't bothered to read through the rest of the options. I'll have to give it a more thorough look.