Then I skimmed through the two programs standing in, hopefully, for every program, to try and see if something the problem fonts have in common would jump out at me.
So, should anyone else ever find themselves with this weird problem, here's what the rest of my day looked like-and yes, I did at last get the problems solved.įirst I printed out a list of all my fonts (in the /Library/Fonts folder). If Font Book *thinks* all fonts are now available to all users, how can I get my programs to agree-and get my programs also to "see" and let me use all of my fonts? So I'm hoping that by laying out everything I *have* already tried this morning, someone will be able to spot a step I missed that will help me get Font Book to wrangle these darned typefaces better. Or, I could waste a lot of disk space, and copy all fonts to User. So this indicates worse voodoo, some sort of font management issue that I don't get, and it probably means I'd be at this check-and-copy thing forever with each and every program I use. It would take quite a while, and there would be two copies, but at least the ones that are not visible to my programs would (hopefully?) be visible again.īut the ones that don't show up and therefore can't be used are not all the same. My lame workaround was going to be, to manually check my font folder against one program or the other, and copy every font that doesn't show up, back into the User folder.
#FINALE 2014.5 WONT FORCE QUIT MAC#
If the 5% that don't work were the exact same, I was going to assume Mac voodoo. I hope I'm not going to have to open every single program I own to keep checking for variations-hopefully knowing that there *are* variations between programs will help someone to give me a suggestion. Now, to be clear, as far as I know all of my typefaces are currently showing up in Font Book, and about 95% of my fonts are visible in both Entourage and Text Edit, even though the 5% that's problematic is partially the same/ partially different in each. And stranger still, though most of their problems are the same, each of the programs also has different fonts which are or aren't showing up!! For instance: Aviano Slab, shown highlighted in the screenshot, isn't visible in either program, but Aviano Flare, right above it, is visible/usable in TextEdit but not visible/not usable in Entourage. So I did this as well, and checked everything again.įont Book itself is still nice and neat, and appears to be complete, but Entourage and TextEdit, which I chose to be representatives of how this font cleanup is working in real programs, still do not show all my fonts. I read a few more support forum posts, and saw that some folks have success when they remove the fontbook.
#FINALE 2014.5 WONT FORCE QUIT PLUS#
(On the plus side, however, some of those fonts which had been hidden to me-ones that I discovered in my morning rummage-are showing up, so half of what I was aiming for is working.) and discovered that some fonts which *have* always been usable, are now not showing up. So I opened one of the programs I use to take notes (Microsoft Entourage), just for a quick check. There is no User folder anymore, and I assume that is because it has no contents-User gets what All gets. The screen shot above shows that all fonts are under "All Fonts" now, instead of some showing up only under All and some, oddly, only under User, as it was before I started the cleanup. removed font cache files through Terminal
(In addition I changed my Font Book prefs so that new additions in the future will not go to the User folder, but to the main folder and be usable to all.) I quit Font Book and all other programs, went to /Library/Fonts and ~/Library/Fonts, and moved all the fonts in the User folder into the All folder, as suggested on some answers here. Cleaning this up seemed like a good place to start. I discovered that some of my fonts, for various reasons, were only in the "User" folder, while some that were listed in "All Fonts" were NOT showing up in the User folder. I got onto the Apple support forums and looked at why this might be. meaning I never think of using them unless I'm actually rummaging through Font Book. This morning, while rummaging through Font Book for something new to use, I discovered that some of my (large) collection of fonts did not show up in various programs.
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