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.

(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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