Recreate the fonts folder to eliminate slowdowns

Jan 10, '02 01:55:20PM

Contributed by: mschneider

My system became slower and slower and bringing up the font menu in Cocoa apps was very slow - taking between 5 and 10 minutes (beachball-cursor, even the dock was incredibly slow).

I checked out the font directories but couldn't find anything strange. So I copied all the fonts from my user's font folder (~/Library/Fonts) to a new folder, restarted my machine, copied all the fonts back and restarted one more time (not sure if the restarts were necessary). After this, my machine works fine as before.

[Editor's note: I have no way of really testing this myself, so it's published here as a possible troubleshooting tip for those that may be experiencing slowdowns in OS X.]

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