Font Book Validation found 172 fonts with serious errors. Can't remove them.

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Font Book Validation found 172 fonts with serious errors. Can't remove them.

Font Book found 172 serious errors on I'm assuming 172 different fonts. It says not to use them and even the font selecting drop down on this website is just boxes with question marks inside them.

I can't remove them or delete them. Is there another way to remove these are anything that installed them? Once again I have never added a single font to my computer and have no need for anything more than a couple of simple fonts. I do have Adobe Lightroom, Premiere Pro, PS and Media Encoder installed but I'm not aware of them coming with this many fonts.

Posted on Jul 31, 2017 11:32 AM

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Answer 1

tygb

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Jul 31, 2017 3:45 PM in response to chase_daniel

Read the article : Font Book for Mac: Validate fonts in Font Book

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John Galt

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Jul 31, 2017 1:05 PM in response to chase_daniel

macOS ships with 220 fonts installed: 48 + 172, all of which should obviously pass Font Book's validation.

Something is wrong with that macOS installation. Your post history suggests an outsized concern for your Macs becoming "hacked" or otherwise maliciously tampered with. You never provided much in the way of information that would help confirm or deny that suspicion.

If you remain concerned the solution is simple: erase the affected Macs and reinstall macOS.

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dialabrain

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Jul 31, 2017 11:45 AM in response to chase_daniel

Are you saying you can't check any of the boxes to the left of each font and use the "Remove Checked" button?

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