How to properly manage your fonts on a mac

[Natobasso]

Originally Posted by blairina

Oh, It's too long to get it.But still thanks very much.

1. Create a folder called MY FONTS
2. Put it in your hard drive
3. Move all your fonts there
4. Load them into FontExplorer and activate as needed

[Natobasso]

Originally Posted by MacHater123

The problem is, you're using a mac, so you should expect problems.... many of them....

Um, yeah, ever tried managing fonts on a pc?

[Natobasso]

Originally Posted by Machater122

easy, you noob. Never had a problem.
Guess mac users are just used to problems.... wonder why they use them.....

Mac is like Linux's retarded little brother, always a pest and extremely annoying...
Unix/Linux had it right, where did mac go wrong??????

Hate to say it but you're sounding a lot like your own description of a mac. As far as being a noob goes, I've been on this site since 2002 and have used macs since 1984 - you've been here since, um, this month. Mkay.

Natman to the rescue! :P

[simbalala]

Originally Posted by doctorweb

I mean to say put your MY FONTS folder directly in your hard drive but not in any other folders. Connecting to it will be easy (just one layer to get to rather than digging through /library/fonts/...) and your computer won't be tempted to load all your fonts all the time.

It may be clearer to say - create a folder called “Fonts” in the root directory of your hard drive, eg: /Fonts.

[simbalala]

I used to be a big user of Suitcase back in the pre OSX days but I never bothered to use FontExplorer because at first it was a little flakey and I never tried anything else.

But fonts have gotten out of hand so it's time to clean up.

Did you move all the fonts out of the /Library/Application Support/Adobe font folders as well in your clean up? I have lots of them in there.