Lost Collection In Font Book

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Lost Collection In Font Book

I had a group of fonts (over 100) organized in collection to separate my commercial fonts from personal use fonts. I opened up font book a week ago and the entire collection was empty. The collection name was there but nothing in it. I have googled the problem and it seems to be a known issue but the solutions seem to be older and refer to a plist file I can't seem to locate. Has anyone had this issue recently and found a solution? Any ideas on how to recover this collection? It was a lot of work to organize them and I don't want to have to start over!

MacBook Pro

Posted on Aug 6, 2017 4:01 PM

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Answer 1

hlmmurphy Author

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Aug 21, 2017 7:02 PM in response to Eric Root

Thank you for this! So I was able to find the collection file. It was created Jan 2017 and last modified July 18 which was the day I downloaded new fonts and it disappeared so something in those fonts did it. Any ideas on how to use the file to restore the collection?

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Answer 2

Eric Root

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Aug 6, 2017 4:55 PM in response to hlmmurphy

Can't really help, but if you know the .plist location, it is probably in your user Library.

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library.

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hlmmurphy Author

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Aug 21, 2017 7:04 PM in response to hlmmurphy

Nevermind, I have since discovered that when I discovered the fonts were gone I added some back in as a test and this was the last day I did that. Likely this file has only those fonts. I think I am going to have to give up on this and find another solution for organizing fonts. Ugh.

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hlmmurphy Author

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Aug 7, 2017 5:18 PM in response to Eric Root

Perhaps I did something wrong but I don't see that option. Did I do something wrong?

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tygb

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Aug 7, 2017 9:52 PM in response to hlmmurphy

Read this article : Mac Basics: Font Book - Apple Support

And read the paragraph disable and enable specific fonts in the article .

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tygb

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Aug 17, 2017 9:23 AM in response to hlmmurphy

In your above screen shot of user library macOS Sierra: Library folder

The pic is showing a folder named fonts disabled , click on it can you see removed fonts .

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hlmmurphy Author

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Aug 17, 2017 9:10 AM in response to tygb

The fonts are still on my computer, my collection where I had certain one's organized has disappeared.

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Answer 8

Eric Root

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Aug 17, 2017 9:47 AM in response to hlmmurphy

Go to Finder/Preferences/Sidebar/Favorites and check the house at the bottom that has your name next to it. Then go to the Finder Sidebar, select the house, and try command - J.

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