Date: Thu, 07 Apr 94 18:15:46 CST From: Mack Willingham Subject: Font Trouble Summary Post Hello all. A week or so ago I had a problem with trashing some fonts that were in my fonts folder. I posted the question here, and got several prompt replies. Also I got a request to post the replies I got, and how I solved the problem. I had planned to post them last week, but the pc I was on at the time crashed and I lost the file (just like a pc). So there it is: I had come time to clean out my system folder, and wanted to thin out the herd of fonts that I had. In doing so, there were 4 TT fonts that I couldn't trash. I tried to do the usual drag to the trash, but I got the 'not enough memory' reply. Having plenty of mem left, I was in the finder, I knew that I had the damaged font problem. 1.) The first thing that came to mind was that fonts were like mini applications, that were running in the background (I know that this is not how it works, but just an aside). So I restarted my mac with the shift key held down to disable all the extensions. I go back to the f onts f older and try to drag the f onts to the trash. But, I get that same message, not enough memory. 2.) Not to be outdone by some.... some .... FONT, I whipped out my handy dandy copy of ResEdit, and proceeded to destroy all the resources that were contained the font. If there is nothing in the file, then it should be nothing but an empty shell, and I can then trash it with no problem .... right? WRONG! 3.) I then posted the problem on the net, and started to use the suggestions from you guys, and gals. One was to compress the file with my weapon of choice, and then try and trash it. I stuffed it, and tried to have stuffit to delete the file for me. Needless to say, the font still hung in there. It later dawned on me that I should have used disk doubler instead since it compresses the file itself and not make a copy of it. 4.) Well, if the file is damaged, then if I can fix the file with norton, then I should be able to trash it. So I loaded up norton, and behold, the f ile was damaged, and norton said that it wanted to fix it, so I let norton fix it. Tried to trash it after a restart, and got the same message. 5.) I got another suggestion from the net. This one said that I should just pull the entire font folder out of the system folder, then trash the fonts. This seemed to easy to work, but hey, I had nothing to loose. I drug the folder onto the desktop, and the icon changes to that of a normal folder. Something was happening!! Next I put those pesky fonts in the trash, and WWOOOOSH!!!! I saw them grasping for the edge of the rim, but the current was just too strong for them. So long suckers!!!! So to all of those people that helped me with my problem, thanks! hope this helps someone else out there. Mack Willingham zu01988@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu PS Sorry that it took so long!!!