Wrong fonts

[UnitedRed]

is the Home>Library>Fonts meant to be empty to start off with?
so if I move everything out of that folder to somewhere else it should be ok?


one more thing is when adding fonts what is the best place to put the actual file, by using fontbook the font gets added but the file is still on my desktop and if I move it then it won't work anymore

another thing i've noticed is when typing a reply the cursor seems to miss the last letters off when i'm typing, and sometimes a smilie is used

 

[Macky-Mac]

I'm confused now..........the "home" folder is the user folder right? that's for fonts you want to add for yourself and not where OS 10.4 puts required fonts

You did put the fonts back into /library/fonts according to the Apple list from that link posted previously?

I think that the actual font files on that list should be placed in the appropriate font folders......and if you're turning any fonts on or off using fontbook, that should be done after you have put them in their proper font folders

 

[UnitedRed]

yeah the home is the user folder and I did put all the fonts in the right places according to that link.

the thing is if I put any fonts into my folder then they get added automatically, so I don't use font book to add them.

Arial is under my own fonts in the library not in the Macintosh HD section where as Arial Black, Arial Narrow, arial Rounded Bold, ArialHB.ttf, ArialHBBold.ttf are in Library>Fonts

 

[Macky-Mac]

Arial is under my own fonts in the library not in the Macintosh HD section where as Arial Black, Arial Narrow, arial Rounded Bold, ArialHB.ttf, ArialHBBold.ttf are in Library>Fonts

you have arial in your user location? that chart shows that arial should be in /library/fonts along with arial black, arial narrow and arial rounded bold.....try putting arial there and then do the restart and see what's what

 

[UnitedRed]

you have arial in your user location? that chart shows that arial should be in /library/fonts along with arial black, arial narrow and arial rounded bold.....try putting arial there and then do the restart and see what's what

I can get my fonts back to normal until the next time I restart. I just have to keep moving copying arial font all over the place

At the minute its in Library>Fonts and User>Library>fonts.
If I delete the user one then it doesnt work anymore

Also I don't understand fontbook, i To add a font it goes into my user ones and I can't seem to get it to work from the Library one.

Would it be wise to remove all my user ones?

 

[Macky-Mac]

....Also I don't understand fontbook....

haha.....me neither as I don't use it.

If I were faced with your situation the first thing I would do is make sure that I had an external back-up of all the font files....just in case!!!

One danger is that by using Font Book, maybe you've inadvertently told the computer to do things with the fonts that you dont really want happening. I wonder if you have beening "adding" a font to collections without changing the physical location of the font file. I'm vaguely remembering that in Font Book you need to manually drag the font from "user" to "computer" to relocate it from the user/library/font folder to the library/font folder.........you might try that.....I'm not sure if I'm remembering that correctly though.

Myself, I manually add fonts when I need to add something which isn't often. Maybe you should try that instead of using Font Book since you don't fully understand how or what it's doing. I would try manually putting a copy of arial into the library/fonts folder, restart the computer, then manually remove arial from your user/library/fonts folder and restart again......and then see what's what

 

[Macinflux]

First off

First of all, when you first install a clean system, your user>Library>fonts folder is empty. You root library fonts have some system related fonts that show in all apps, and your System>fonts are the ones you really should not mess with at all. So three locations. The only place you can really mess with, reasonably safely is the user area.

I would suggest again that you dump ALL user>library>fonts, copy them somewhere else first if you think you need to keep them. Then try making the fonts in your root>library>fonts match only the original list, that was quoted before. Then trash the file "com.apple.Recents.collection" from user>library>font collections, and the file "com.apple.FontBook.plist" from user>library>preferences. Run Disk Utility and repair permissions (and while you're at it use OnyX or some such program to clear all your caches).

Now restart. If Fontbook has reset itself and all else is working you can drag, ONE FONT AT A TIME, to user>library>fonts and try them out. (Also Fontbook has a nice Resolve Duplicates function under the Edit menu). This way you'll find out which font is the one that is messing up your system. Generally speaking the only fonts that go into the root>library>font folder are the ones the system puts there and some applications, such as Office and Adobe also install to this folder.

If you have a lot of fonts, thousands in other words, try not putting all of them in, just the ones that are really useful to you and you use a lot. In the case that you need specific fonts for specific jobs, simply activate them when you need them, although for this you really ought to use a third party program such as Extensis Suitcase, which is much more powerful than Fontbook. Try it anyhow.