Q: FontBook Issues
I'm running an imac on OSX 10.9.5
Have been having problems with very long delays on start up / opening applications etc.
Finally had a lightbulb moment when i realised Photoshop was loading a lot of fonts i'd never heard of before so...
Had a major purge of my font files and stripped them right back to essentials.
Ok - so far so good - my imac is responding a lot more healthily now, however....
FontBook is not looking right at all...
Firstly there are fonts in my library_fonts and system_library_fonts folders, (my user-library-fonts file is currently empty) that are not showing up in the 'all fonts' listing in FontBook
Secondly if i drag fonts from the 'all fonts' listing to a collection it only drags some of the fonts - most are not copied across
I don't want to start adding fonts to my user_library_fonts file until I'm satisfied FontBook is behaving and not causing problems.
My next step was to try uninstalling fontbook entirely from my imac and then re-installing it.
I can't see an option to do that from the fontbook menus but presumably I need to delete any associated files/databases that fontbook has created.
Any advise on how I should proceed - or any alternative and less drastic procedures would be appreciated.
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Posted on Oct 2, 2016 9:20 AM
Posted on Oct 2, 2016 9:30 AM