I'm afraid that's a nonsensical statement. The only purpose for doing that is if you don't want there to be any chance of what you delete being recovered with even computer forensic software. I only did a quick empty not a secure empty (which I had started but was taking AGES!). Which is one of the reasons they are removed on a Safe Mode boot. If the font collection had been left in User/Library/Font they would have been re-enabled, when I booted normally, and I'd be back to square one). Both of which can cause fonts in any of the Fonts folders to disappear. The database got hosed and you had font conflicts.
Why Font Book EVER disabled any system fonts is beyond me! There are a lot of fonts though in that folder which can be removed. If you don't know which ones are important, yes. (WARNING: DO NOT TOUCH YOUR SYSTEM LIBRARY, EVER!).
I booted in safe mode, which re-enabled any system fonts (HD/System/Library/Fonts) allowing everything to run normally againĭoing this clears Font Book's database, collections, and all cache files from your account. Not always, but this often tanks its database, which you fixed by. Also could have been any number of damaged fonts in there, which will always cause havoc.įont Book really doesn't like having fonts manually removed. Sometimes fonts with different file names, but have conflicting internal names. Sometimes duplicates, which you discovered. Today I booted up to find that safari was using incorrect fontsĪ good sign of conflicting fonts. Judging from the rest of your post, it sounds much more like you added a lot of junk fonts, as noted next. This was clearly caused by the OS's handling of fonts I hope the above helps anyone that experiences the same problem, and thanks in advance for any further advice. How can I best manage my font collection? Is there anything I should have done that I missed? When you import a font collection to font book it automatically enables all the fonts, which can cause massive problems (especially if it's a large collection because, conflicts aside, it keeps them all running all the time, which WILL slow down your Mac) MOST IMPORTANT LESSON: DO NOT IMPORT FONT COLLECTIONS USING FONT BOOK, UNLESS YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. I'm going to clean my hard drive (after less than a week!), but I'm also considering wiping it and re-installing the OS, just to be on the safe side. Rebooting normally everything still worked fine, because my font collection was in the trash and they couldn't be re-enabled (NOTE: If the font collection had been left in User/Library/Font they would have been re-enabled, when I booted normally, and I'd be back to square one). Why Font Book EVER disabled any system fonts is beyond me! (It may have to do with the fact that OSX searches for fonts in User first, then Library, then System - surely that's the wrong way round and a recipe for disaster!) I booted in safe mode, which re-enabled any system fonts (HD/System/Library/Fonts) allowing everything to run normally again (WARNING: DO NOT TOUCH YOUR SYSTEM LIBRARY, EVER!). This, however, crashed both Font Book and Finder! To fix this I trashed the contents of the User font library. This was because there were conflicts/duplicates between the HD and User font libraries (HD/Library/Fonts & HD/User/Library/Fonts). I opened up Font Book to find that there were multiple duplicate fonts, so I disabled the duplicates using Font Book. Today I booted up to find that safari was using incorrect fonts (first boot after installation of fonts). I used Font Book to do this, which ran its validation process and filtered out fonts that wouldn't work. Yesterday I copied my font library onto my new mac, from my old G5 PPC's external backup drive. I have just experienced serious problems with OSX 10.6, this was clearly caused by the OS's handling of fonts (specifically using font book), and I would to share the solution and seek futher advice on correct procedure for deleting fonts from the user/library/fonts.