Move all fonts out of your user account Fonts folder to a temporary folder on the desktop. If the problems return, you likely have bad fonts on your system somewhere.Ģ) So the next step is to get the original fonts back on the system, and only the original OS X supplied fonts. When you launch Font Book after booting normally, a new database will be built. This will clear Font Book's database and the cache files of the user account you logged into in Safe Mode.
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Let the Mac finish booting to the desktop and then restart normally. OS X asks you to log in (you will get this screen on a Safe Mode boot even if your Mac is set to automatically log in). You can let go of the Shift key at that point. Keep holding the Shift key until you see a progress bar towards the bottom of the screen. Restart your Mac and immediately hold down the Shift key when you hear the startup chime to boot into Safe Mode. You can clear it, have the fonts working for a day or two, and then the damaged fonts toast the database again and you're back to a non functioning Font Book. From easiest to test and fix, to the most time consuming:ġ) Corrupt fonts will damage Font Book's database. That includes removing Font Book if your preferred font manager is Suitcase, FontExplorer X Pro, or other app.įrom there, you have to go down the line of possibilities. Pick one and completely remove any others. They will fight each other over control of which fonts are enabled/disabled. To start with, never have more than one font manager on any system at the same time. But the system fonts aren't even in Suitcase's library, so I don't see how it could conflict? Jessie_vp, do you have another font management app installed? The only common factor for me in these cases is that I also have Suitcase Fusion installed. So I'll just wait it out again unless someone has an idea. Each time, my computer must have decided to finally stop turning the font off, but I have no idea why. If you want to know how my previous font issues were resolved, I have no idea. Font Book is a shoddy application by reputation, so I place the blame there. In my cases, it's always been a core system font which makes it particularly annoying. One time it was Georgia, another Verdana, and this time it's Arial. I don't think this is a Mavericks issue, because this has happened to me before a couple of times on different Macs. But the next time I shutdown and boot up, they are turned off again. I have the same issue, where Arial Regular and Arial Bold (but NOT Arial Italic or Arial Bold Italic) keeps getting turned off in Font Book. I wish there had been some advice given here regarding your question. I regularly have to use those fonts so going back and forth reenabling them just takes too much time and effort, and to be honest is driving me up the wall. And it's not just the entire font family, but a couple of weights. They're not some fonts I found on a dodgy site, but Google fonts, as well as some "respectable fonts" such as Futura. After closing and reopening Font Book all fonts were present but were - again - disabled. I have cleared my font cache, after which some of the "problem fonts" disappeared altogether and some fonts were enabled as they should be. I have removed duplicate fonts, and Suitcase.
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I read somewhere that the font book preferences are easily corrupted but my install is just a few days old? Even so, I have place the plist pref file on my desktop, but to no avail. I always reenable them, but after a reboot they keep getting disabled. Font book keeps disabling some fonts (mostly. I've recently installed Mavericks (10.9.3) and noticed I have the same persistent issue I had in Mountain Lion (10.8.4), and if I remember correctly in Snow Leopard as well.