Appleworks problem

[perfessor101]

Originally Posted by bethmac

How can I tell if a font or other preference is corrupted? Can I disable all fonts in some way (and get them back again!)? Thanks again for all of your help.

Open Font book and select all your fonts the on the file menu select Validate font to see if any of them are corrupted.

Preferential Treatment can check your preference files to be sure they are correctly formatted, but you can still have an invalid node or argument that would render the plist problematic so even if it says no problems were found there may still be corrupted preference files, but not vice-versa. If you haven't tried it before, you might delete com.apple.SystemUIServer.plist and see if that solves the problem.

You can drag the fonts out of the font folders to disable them, but that might also disable OS X at the same time, so that is not advisable unless you are reasonably expert. Apple Knowledge Base article 25710 lists the required fonts and where they should be located. Disabling one of those can make the system or some applications unusable.