Event name font problem, take 2 (or 3)

Question

in all of Apple's marketing materials, the font of the display name of each event is a lovely bright bold white, and it's centered under each event. in many people's versions of iphoto 08 (mine included), it's an ugly drab, left-justified and tucked a little under the poster frame of the event. I've read a few things about fonts, and I've tried clearing my cache, disabling and re-enabling Helvetica, and running Font Finagler (which essentially just cleared my cache again). has anyone figured this out? there's also the issue of editing an event name; when I click on the name, it turns into what appears is an editable field but I cannot type in it. I must use the information panel on the lower left. if the field was never meant to be edited, then why would it turn white like that? I hope I don't have to go to a genius to fix this, since it seems like a small thing.

Answer 1

jeddinbrooklyn:
In your Applications folder is an application called Font Book. Launch it, and go down the list of fonts. You'll see Helvetica Neue as one of the fonts. If you have the new iMac, it's probably installed.
If you're seeing your event titles aligned to the left, and looking different from the iPhoto '08 you see on the web and in the store, then you have a problem with the fonts.db cache file.
We're just users like you so we don't know why the problem exists on some Macs, but I've seen it once and I've seen it on one or two other computers owned by others.
Note that "cache" files are simply created by your OS to speed up things that you've already done once. The fonts.db file is such a cache file that will be recreated. It wasn't "Factory installed" as you might think, but is created as soon as you start up.
1) If you don't believe what I'm saying, try this:
2) Double-click your hard drive icon
3) Open the folder called Library
4) Open the folder called Caches
5) Open com.apple.ATS
6) In EACH folder that is inside this com.apple.ATS folder, there is a file called fonts.db (I have two folders, "System" and "501" that each have this file)
7) Select each "fonts.db" file and Cmd-Delete. A dialog will appear asking you for your admin name and password, provide it
8) The files are in your trash but still being used by the system.
9) Restart.
10) Launch iPhoto '08. You should be fine now.
If you're worried about the "factory installed" files, go to step 1) through 6). You will see the files re-created, and hopefully your problem will be solved. You can empty the trash if you're satisfied.
I've been using Macs long before iPhoto was around, and if there's one thing I won't do, it's post information that will cause problems. I even try out the procedure on my own iMac first if I am not sure what it will do.