Q: Can I safely remove fonts from "Fonts Disabled" in Mavericks?
I just upgraded to Mavericks on my MacBook Pro. I've had Office For Mac 2004 on my system and now have Office for Mac 2011. Along with other software I see in Font Book that I have MANY duplicate fonts. I'd like to safely remove the duplicates at the very least, and perhaps delete others that I don't use. I'm nervous, however, thinking I might accidentally delete something I would need later.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed?
Thank you
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), Non-skilled computer user
Posted on Mar 16, 2014 2:57 PM
For those who may be interested in this issue - I've made a USB backup using Font Book of all 373 fonts listed on my system. That gives me an "off-computer" backup arrangement for every single font, duplicates and all.
I let Font Book do an "Automatic Resolve" on the duplicates it was showing.
Then I went in and deleted the "Fonts Disabled" files, not the folder itself.
Further, I went through and deleted the fonts that were dated 03, 05, 06, 07, and 08, and I made a copy of the list that was in the "Trash" folder before actually deleting them off the system.
Then I went back through and verified the needed files as provided by the article linlk that VikingOSX provided above.
I believe this will resolve any font issues for now.
I hope this may help others with this issue.
Posted on Mar 16, 2014 6:05 PM
