Installed Suitcase Fusion 2 on Vista and messed up system fonts
mbradford101 (5 points) | Mon, 2009-09-07 00:09I installed Suitcase Fusion 2 on my PC with Vista, and then copied a font folder (not the the system fonts folder) that had 15,000 fonts into Suitcase. Then I tried to activate them all and everything slowed down, and it seemed to working very slow. So I tried to deactivate them all, and after an hour, it hadn't past the A's in the list of the fonts. So I gave up on trying to deactivate the fonts and uninstalled Suitcase...
Now my system fonts seem to be messed up. I think I somehow lost system fonts, because websites are all showing Times Roman fonts instead of Arial.
I didn't touch my system fonts folder at any time in this process. So whatever damage was done - as far as removing system fonts - had to be caused by Suitcase.
Does anyone know how this can be fixed?
Before installing Suitcase, I had about 1,800 fonts in my system fonts folder. Now I have no idea how many are in there. But the majority of the thousands of fonts currently showing in my system fonts folder are SHORTCUTS to fonts in the Suitcase folder, rather than actual fonts.
As far my system, it's a Gateway GT5696 with an AMD Phenom 9600 Quad-Core processor and 8 GB or RAM, running Windows Vista 64-bit Home Premium.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer!
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Well that was certainly one bold experiment. My first question would be what kind of job are you doing that requires 15,000 fonts?
Here's the problem, when you add fonts to your system (or worse - font shortcuts) - you're basically expanding the system by whatever amount of memory it takes to load that font. You were probably okay up until the part about ACTIVATING all those fonts. There's no reason to have that many active fonts in your system. On the contrary, that's exactly the purpose of Suitcase - to manage your fonts... ie: open and close them when you NEED them (so your system is not overwhelmed by your incredible font collection... which is what happened here).
So far as the Arial no longer working on the web, you either removed it or accidently deactivated it. A simple restart might fix that or load up Suitcase again and activate Arial manually. Whatever you do - DO NOT activate ALL the fonts again. That is the problem here.
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