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Question marks on login screen

Does anyone have a fix for question marks showing up as fonts on my login screen? I have a MacBook Air. It seems to do this when my machine is running slow. Thank you, Rick.

Posted on Aug 16, 2017 12:33 PM

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Posted on Aug 16, 2017 1:06 PM

Fix Font Corruption


Open Terminal in your Utilities' folder and paste the following after the prompt:


fontrestore default


Press RETURN.


If this doesn’t fix the problem then paste the following after the prompt:


sudo atsutil databases -remove


Press RETURN.


You may need to restart the computer for anything to take effect.

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Aug 16, 2017 1:06 PM in response to rmenary

Fix Font Corruption


Open Terminal in your Utilities' folder and paste the following after the prompt:


fontrestore default


Press RETURN.


If this doesn’t fix the problem then paste the following after the prompt:


sudo atsutil databases -remove


Press RETURN.


You may need to restart the computer for anything to take effect.

Question marks on login screen

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