Jul 28, '05 09:15:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
There was nothing relevant, but one of the posts prompted my memory. The other day, I accidentally erased the Courier font using the Font book. I thought I was deleting duplicates, but in fact, I erased all copies. Since I don't use that font often, I thought I would reinstall it when the need arose. Somehow, I became convinced that that was the root of my problems. Sure enough, after reinstalling the fonts, everything went back to normal -- I didn't even need to reboot. I still can't believe that one font could cause so much trouble.
Perhaps somebody had a similar problem and posted the solution some place on the web. Unfortunately it didn't come up in my searches, since I only knew the symptoms and not the causes. Hopefully this will help...
[robg adds: As a general statement, bad things tend to happen when any of the core OS X fonts are disabled (or damaged or deleted). In some ways, Font Book actually makes it too easy to do this -- there have been lots of threads on various forums about seemingly bizarre system issues that are all eventually traced back to a missing system font...]
