#Font missing in fontbook update#

It could even leave repair to a third party app - the point is that given that corrupt fonts are a common problem, and given the severity of the crashes that a corrupt font causes, you'd think that Apple would have put a safeguard in. You can blame corrupt fonts for FontBook crashes, but corrupt fonts are hardly a new problem, so you'd think that FontBook would at least be able to identify fonts as corrupt rather than trusting them implicitly. Its main problem appears to be immaturity. It surfaces repeatedly as a pro app in Apple's own literature. I don't see any evidence that FontBook is aimed at average users.

#Font missing in fontbook update#

Maybe I have to go through all my fonts and update the older ones but they worked fine in Suitcase X under Jaguar.Īnyone have any tips or good experiences handling a large number of fonts with FontBook? Interface is great, it just doesn't work right. Don't just spin the ing beachball when I add a folder of dozens of fonts. Activation/deactivation of fonts should be fairly quick.ģ. Font book should not activate fonts by default when you add them!Ģ. I'm back to normal but now I have to wait for Suitcase X1 to work with Panther or FontBook to get smart.ġ. Every thing came up fine but there were 1200 fonts in my user font folder that I then deleted.

Couldn't force quit, no other apps were coming up or starting and I couldn't even log out or restart. It takes about 30 seconds (on a 933MHz G4 with 1GB RAM) to deactivate a font. I'll just deactivate them as I go through them. Firstly it ground my machine to a halt, so I suspected it was activating the fonts instead of just loading them.