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How to salvage OS X when fonts go awry
Authored by: mdouma46 on Mar 31, '06 02:32:48PM
"Next, you need to remove all the 0 length files from /Library/Fonts:
$ cd /Library/Fonts
$ ls -l | grep ' 0 '
This should give you a list. Remove each with
$ rm font_filename
Why in the world are you doing that? Those files don't have a 0 length; their information is in the resource fork, not the data fork, and an 'ls' in Terminal, by default, only shows the file size of the data fork. (You can see the size of these files by doing an 'ls' and tacking on "/..namedfork/rsrc" to the end of the file path).

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