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Enigmatik · Jun 9, 2006, 05:01 PM

Guys, I have made a massive booboo.

When trying to sort the fonts out on my system I have managed to delete all the fonts out of System/Library/fonts and Users/username/Library/Fonts. OSX boots to a blue screen and will not load finder or anything.

I need someway of copying some font files into the font folders - using a Firewire Disk mode is not going to work as I dont have any firewire drives. Any way of doing it?!

Ganesha · Jun 9, 2006, 05:20 PM

You don't need a firewire drive to use firewire disk mode, all you need is a second mac, since the mac in firewire disk mode will act as a firewire drive for the second mac.

What sort of Mac is this? Any way you can pull the drive? Do you have a second mac? Do you have a second computer that isn't a mac? Do you have a copy of contents of System/Library/fonts and Users/username/Library/Fonts handy?

Enigmatik · Jun 9, 2006, 05:30 PM

Its a Macbook Pro 15inch.

I dont have a second mac, I have a Dell Laptop. There is a copy of the fonts folder on the hard drive - and I could put together a cd with some fonts on off my laptop.

Im assuming i just need to get the main system fonts on there somehow so that OSX can render the menus and stuff?

CharlesS · Jun 9, 2006, 05:41 PM

I'm thinking you'd need at least LucidaGrande.dfont for sure. Keyboard.dfont and LastResort.dfont look special, so probably you'd want those too.

You say there's a copy of the fonts folder on the hard drive - where is it? Give me a path, and I'll give you some commands to fix this in single-user mode.

Enigmatik · Jun 9, 2006, 05:44 PM

I have all the fonts at /Fonts

My username is Stuppy on the system.

Enigmatik · Jun 9, 2006, 05:47 PM

Thanks btw

CharlesS · Jun 9, 2006, 05:57 PM

Okay, assuming that /Fonts contains the fonts that are supposed to be in /System/Library/Fonts, rather than the ones that are supposed to be in your user folder, you can boot into Single-User Mode (command-S at startup) and do this:

fsck
mount -uw /
cp /Fonts/* /System/Library/Fonts/
reboot

I think that should do it. Post here again if it doesn't.

Enigmatik · Jun 9, 2006, 06:01 PM

You sir, are a god!

Thank you so much!

tooki · Jun 9, 2006, 06:26 PM

For future reference: this is why Apple has the /System folder, and why /System is protected even from admin users. Nothing -- NOTHING -- in that folder should ever be moved, changed, added to, or deleted. That's what the /Library and ~/Library folders are for.

tooki

Enigmatik · Jun 9, 2006, 06:39 PM

To be fair, I am a reletivly new Mac user in the home. Used them at work for 3 years but just for work stuff. I was never sure where I shoved fonts so that they were picked up in Apps like Illustrator and Photoshop. Always shoved them in any FONTS folder on the hard drive. Now i know its in /Library.