Font book not starting up

when i start font book, the color wheel keeps on spinning and i have to force quit because it becomes unresponsive, how do i reset font book's database or restore it back to default?

Hopefully you have a backup. Your hard drive may be failing. I'd try a few things:
if you have any peripherals, like mice or keyboards, unplug them and try again.
try a SMC reset Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
a safe boot Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
boot to your recovery partition and repair your hard drive and permissions When to Run First Aid in Mountain Lion's Disk Utility - For Dummies
if that doesn't work, try internet recovery OS X: About OS X Recovery
if you can get your computer booted in one of the recovery modes, but it can't be repaired successfully enough to start into the regular boot partition, you may need to erase the drive and start over with a clean installation.
You might be able to get your hard drive to mount in target mode on another mac, which would let you back up any files that you want to save on the drive: OS X Mountain Lion: Transfer files between two computers using target disk mode
if you can't get any of this to work, then the drive quite possibly is failing, and should be replaced.

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Kurt Lang wrote:
PC Type 1 PostScripts have never been able to be used on the Mac. Same is true trying to use a Mac Type 1 PS font on the PC. You have a few options.
1) The Adobe applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), starting with the CS2 suite, can indeed read these fonts. Place them in the /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts/ folder and you will be able to use Windows Type 1 PostScript fonts with the Adobe programs. This is the ONLY place this will work. All other Mac applications won't have a clue what to do with the paired .pfb and .pfm files.
2) Convert them. One of the nicest is TransType. The pro version is more, but don't bother with the light version since it can't save OpenType format. Unless back out to Mac Type 1 PS is fine for you.
3) A free method is to install Font Forge. This is an open source project. I haven't tried it myself, but others here say it works well. It's a full font editor such as FontLab or Fontographer. I would imagine you could save fonts out as Mac Type 1 PostScript or OpenType, but I can't be sure.
The Adobe applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), starting with the CS2 suite, can indeed read these fonts. Place them in the /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts/
Just want to clarify that with CS4 the directory path /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts/ does not exist and I am still looking for a solution.

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I downloaded a font onto Font Book and it works perfectly on Font Book and all the characters and symbols come up correctly, as they should. Then when I use it on Text Edit, it replaces the ', " and @ with a $ sign. What can I do to fix this, or is it unfixable? I'm using a Mac OS X 10.7.5 and I'm not sure what could be causing this situation.

It does that because that's the way the lazy person who created this font built it. Here's the layout of the font you're having trouble with:
Now compare it to the OS X supplied font Andale Mono:
Note on the third line, second from the right that Andale Mono has an @ symbol in the "at" position. The person who created the font you downloaded types a $ sign because that's what they put there, along with dozens of other glyph positions (must have really loved how they drew that $ sign). Which when you look where the quote and apostrophe are, they are also filled with the $ glyph.
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I upgraded from os x 10.7 to 10.9 on my iMac and now my font book won't open. I keep getting a message that says my version of font book is not compatible with 10.9. Is there a way to reinstall font book?

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The title says it...I used Font Book to validate the font and it was labelled okay, but still I downloaded and reinstalled it. Problem persists. Nisus Writer Pro says it has to substitute Lucida Grande. Text Edit substitutes something else.
Has persisted through a few months, many restarts of course...
I think other fonts may show the same behavior but I have not taken the time to document this.
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~Bee, (sorry for delay in replying)
I deleted the original copy of Webdings and installed the one I downloaded from MS. Is Webdings actually a "System" font in the same way that Helvetica, Monaco, and Lucida Grande are? If so, Webdings is no longer in that folder; I just checked using Font Explorer which makes it easy to see the "System" fonts (no way I could find to do that in Apple's Font Book).
Should I move the Webdings? Do you think I should not use the MS copy? If that is the case I don't suppose I can just re-install that one font from the system disks, easier to say goodbye to it. Mostly I just wanted one glyph from it that showed an open book. I can perhaps do a screenshot of that because the font is visible in font utilities, just won't appear in any applications.

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Hi there,
I recently had Apple do a migration from my old power pc G5 to my new iMac Mavericks.
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Hi there,
I recently had Apple do a migration from my old power pc G5 to my new iMac Mavericks.
I am having trouble with a font 'Chalet' not showing up in my photoshop cs6.
I added the font to my Font Book and it is visible there & is validated, but it won't show up in my Photoshop.
I've been searching on an answer on the web, but no luck
any advice on what I can do?'
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Most of my fonts (1000+) are currently disabled in Font Book, but they still show up in the font menus in the applications I run (Photoshop, Adium, Omnigraffle, Mail.app, etc.).
Why don't my applications just reflect the list of fonts I have enabled in Font Book?
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I posted this below, but never had any replies or answers, I have since spoke to someone at the apple store who says:
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I have several fonts that Font Book shows as installed that are not available to any of my applications, including Word and Quark Express. These fonts include Arial Bold, Arial Bold Italic, and Arial Italic, all of which I believe were installed as part of OS 10.4, along with several other fonts in the Arial family that are available to my applications. How can I get all my installed fonts to be available to my applications?
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HI John,
Try deleting the FontBook pref file: com.apple.fontbook.plist
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences. Drag the .plist file from your Preferences folder to the Trash, empty the Trash and reboot. Launch Word or QE and see if those fonts are available now.
Validating fonts
If fonts are not displayed as expected when you open documents or you cannot open documents, it's possible fonts have been corrupted. You can validate fonts to confirm they are still safe to use, and remove any corrupted fonts you find.
Take care not to remove system fonts, located in /System/Library/Fonts; removing system fonts could cause some applications to quit unexpectedly.
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I have s of fonts in my font book but can't see them in pages. How do I make them be seen.

Welcome to the forums!
Do you mean you don't know how to see any fonts at all? If that is the case, use the Font icon in the toolbar, or go to the Format menu, and in the Fonts submenu choose "Show Fonts" (or use the keyboard shortcut Command-T). Any of these methods will bring up the Font Panel.
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I installed Leopard 7 days ago and have been having no significant problems until this morning when the machine would not start.
The "chord" sound plays, and the Apple Logo on the grey screen shows, along with the little spinning indicator, but it goes no further. I am stuck, and in the middle of Sudan without any real tech support folks anywhere near.
I have one candidate so far for the source of the problem:
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Did you rename the boot volume via the "get info" window in finder? Because this should be fine.
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Anyone come across this?

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Peruse Font Management in OS X and if you want to reset the font databases properly, boot into safe mode and then reboot normally. Details in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455 If you're still having issues, contact Adobe and ascertain why their font management's mucked up.

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Hopefully you have a backup. Your hard drive may be failing. I'd try a few things:
if you have any peripherals, like mice or keyboards, unplug them and try again.
try a SMC reset Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
a safe boot Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
boot to your recovery partition and repair your hard drive and permissions When to Run First Aid in Mountain Lion's Disk Utility - For Dummies
if that doesn't work, try internet recovery OS X: About OS X Recovery
if you can get your computer booted in one of the recovery modes, but it can't be repaired successfully enough to start into the regular boot partition, you may need to erase the drive and start over with a clean installation.
You might be able to get your hard drive to mount in target mode on another mac, which would let you back up any files that you want to save on the drive: OS X Mountain Lion: Transfer files between two computers using target disk mode
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