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Corrupt Font Bringing down OS X
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Hollywood, Ca
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..ok no big news- I know. I've heard before that OS X is very font sensitive.
I recently switched all the files from my Win2K machine to my Mac, including some fonts I downloaded for WIndows. The fonts all work, but my machine has had 2 kernel panics since I installed them a week ago. A couple questions:
Is there any way to determine which fonts are bad without dropping $70 for "Font Doctor", or other such utility?
When the system crashes due to corrupted fonts, does it damage other parts of the file system?
If so, will a font-repairing utility bring back the system to it's prior level of stabilty, or is a re-install of the OS necessary for that?
I am aware of the process of booting from the OS X disk & repairing permissions/checking disk for errors, and also the "fsck -y" single-user mode command. These haven't helped, for the second kernel panic happened after I took these steps.
thanks a million for any help that you can provide!!
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My Computer: MacBook Pro 2GHz, Mac OS X 10.4.5
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Senior User
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Massachusetts, USA
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but when I tried the demos for Font Doctor and at least one other font utility, the corrupt fonts on my system actually crashed both programs without revealing which fonts they were... I ended up just disabling a large chunk of fonts at a time until I found out what was going on. OS9 Extension Conflict sort of deal.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: France
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Originally posted by Phoenix1701:
I hate to be the bearer of bad news...
They used to get killed in ancient times
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Scotland
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just download the demo of font agent pro and run it, i had corruption yesterday from copying over windows fonts and it fixed it
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: NYC
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Ditto.
It'd be nice if (one day) Font Book could check for corrupt fonts as well.
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Hollywood, Ca
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Originally posted by Wickedkitten:
just download the demo of font agent pro and run it, i had corruption yesterday from copying over windows fonts and it fixed it
cool thank you.. that is what I'll do.
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My Computer: MacBook Pro 2GHz, Mac OS X 10.4.5
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