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Deactivating Font Book: Apple Support Communities

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Deactivating Font Book: Apple Support Communities. Thanks Kurt! I never deleted Font Book before and other programs like Font Explorer X seemed to work just fine. So it isn’t a requirement for all programs.

FEX won’t work right until you get Font Book off the drive. You don’t need to deactivate your fonts with it first.

As you know, the OS states “Font Book can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by Mac OS X” when you try to delete it. Which is baloney. It’s just a font manager.

Actually, it says the same thing about any app you try to delete from the Applications folder. So, Chess is required by OS X? Umm, I don’t think so.

To get rid of Font Book in Lion:

1) First open the preferences for Font Book and turn off the check box for “Alert me if system fonts change”. Close the preferences and then shut down Font Book.

2) Open the Terminal application in the Utilities folder. Copy the following line.

sudo rm -R /Applications/Font\ Book.app

Paste it into Terminal. Press Enter. You will be asked for your admin password. Type it in (Terminal does not return on screen what you’re typing for a password) and press Enter. Politely wave bye-bye to Font Book.

3) Restart into a Safe Mode boot and then back again normally to clear Font Book’s orphaned database from the drive.

 

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Pages and all other iWork 09 apps crashing on startup

Apple – Support – Discussions – Pages and all other iWork 09 apps ….  Seems to be a font conflict.  Has a great link to a free and legal version of the older software LFE.  thanks Peter!

Use Font Book to turn off all but the essential system fonts, then turn them on one by one.

To speed up the font selection you can divide them up into sets and turn the sets on until one triggers the problem. Then divide that set up again until you pin the culprit.

Font Management tools, like Linotype Font Explorer (free) can work some of this out for you.

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can’t add any fonts to font book?

Kurt Lang has one solution.  Another one would be to try a utility like Onyx/Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner.  His solution is the safest however and probably faster as well.  ”
Usually an indication that Font Book’s database and/or collections are damaged. You can reset it by restarting the Mac in Safe Mode (restart and immediately hold down the shift key), then restart normally. This will clear Font Book’s database, font collections and all cache data from your user account.

Be aware that all fonts will be active regardless of their state beforehand, and all collections you’ve created will be gone. Unfortunately, there isn’t another way to fix this type of problem.”  This fixed the problem for the poster.

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