But, it has one drawback that can cause a very expensive disaster. It is also a rock solid piece of software that works very well. I mention this to lead into Bee's personal favorite, FontAgent Pro. I can't say enough good about activating fonts in place, which both Suitcase and FontExplorer X Pro can do. And that was on a purchased CD of fonts, no less! I've only ever had ONE font manage to do that. It takes "the font from Hades" to make it stall or crash. Now start trying the various font manager replacements you're considering. After running the command, close Terminal andĪt this point, all fonts should be active and working. Both for the system and all user font cache files. You can also copy/paste it from here into the Terminal window: From an administrator account, open the Terminal app and enter the following command. Which is what we want.Īll running applications. With the Font Book application no longer on the hard drive, a new one cannot be created. The main goal in this step is to remove the orphaned Font Book database from the hard drive. Also, all fonts in the three main Fonts folders (System, Library, your user account) will now be active, regardless of their state beforehand. Any font sets you have created will be gone. This will reset Font Book's database and clear the cache files in your user account. Let the Mac finish booting to the desktop and then restart normally. Keep holding it until OS X asks you to log in (you will get this screen on a Safe Mode boot even if your Mac is set to automatically log in). Put the Font Book application in the trash and delete it.Ģ) Restart your Mac and immediately hold down the Shift key when you hear the startup chime to boot into Safe Mode. Close the preferences and shut down Font Book. Uncheck the box for "Alert me if system fonts change". To get Font Book off your hard drive, follow these steps:ġ) Open Font Book, and then its preferences. Once its database gets corrupted (and that happens easily, and often), fonts simply stop working as expected. You want to get Font Book off your system.
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