Font Book Issues

I installed some fonts and now have 1148 installed, many of which I wish to remove. However, Font Book 3.0 freezes on loading so I am unable to proceed. Your assistance is much appreciated. I am running OSX 10.7.4.

Hi ali,
Not sure if you know this, but FontBook from Lemkesoft is a font catalogue printing utility, not a font manager. When I first started reading Dimaxum's post, I also assumed he was talking about Apple's Font Book.
Anyway, FontBook (no space in the name) has been around for a long time. Back even before OS X. It is confusing when referencing these two apps. A person has to specify which one they're talking about.

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