[Thin Lizzy]

Hi,

I have 1,950 fonts installed on my eMac. I want to get rid of them and just go back to the default amount of fonts, they amount you have when you do a fresh install of Panther. Here is my problem.

The fonts cause my eMac to boot considerably slower, takes almost 5 minutes to completely boot. Also, they have caused my eMac to be unstable. There are frequent crashes, where I have to restart the computer, and many apps are just extremely sluggish. Crashes happen just out of no where. iTunes works one minute, the next, iTunes crashes, then I have to force quit, and the next thing you know, I cant click anything on the desktop. I see A LOT of the stupid beach ball.

These problems began when I installed the fonts. I can no longer consider my eMac as stable. What I want to do is be able to get back to the default amount of fonts, without having to reinstall the OS, or delete the fonts manually from the fonts folder. I dont remember which ones are the ones I installed.

Any help?
Thanks.

Also, I posted in the Apple Discussions and got no help.

[Thin Lizzy]

Any help at all?

[neowolf]

The fonts you installed yourself should be in the Library/Fonts folder in your HOME folder. So you should be safe to give those a delete. The only app I know that'll put fonts there is Office and you can reinstall that if that's an issue. None of your system's fonts should be damaged in any way by this.

[funkboy]

You can also use FontBook in Mac OS X 10.3. That's a good tool to at least disable fonts without deleting them - you can see if disabling them improved performance at all.