How to restore font library to original?

I had a folder with tons of fonts in it. I would add them one by one when needed rather than using a font management program. Today I went ahead and added all of them into Font Book. They have brought my system to a crawl. I tried to disable all fonts in Font Book to see if that would work, but with no results. I even tried putting my personal font folder (which is what I also loaded into Font Book) in the trash, but the fonts still keep showing up in the apps...even though they're in the trash. I'd like to just go ahead and restore my user Library back to its original state when I installed Leopard...without having to do a complete reinstall. I'm assuming that will fix everything. Is this possible? I really miss my blazing fast app speed

Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device: Apple Support Communities
Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive: Apple Support Communities
Sync Your iOS Device with a New Computer Without Losing Data - How-To Geek

Similar Messages

How to restore fonts back to original fonts?

My macbook pro bar menu fonts become AAAAA... how to solve this problem ?

You'll find the instructions for installing just the fonts from the original OS X disk at the bottom of this document:
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html
Before you do that. Follow these steps.
1) Delete all fonts from the /Library/Fonts/ folder, and the Fonts folder in your user account. Leave the System's Fonts folder alone.
2) Restart the Mac in Safe Mode (restart and hold down the Shift key). Then restart normally. This will clear the cache files in your user account, and Font Book's database. The latter is important since some of the fonts you had installed were likely corrupt. If they're corrupt, Font Book's database also gets hosed. Once that happens, the only fix is to clear it.
3) Now use Pacifist to restore the fonts from the OS X installation disk.

Anyone know how to Restore iTunes Library from External HD

My PC won't even turn on anymore. But luckily, I have most of the iTunes Library backed up in an External HD.
Now, I've searched and can't find instructions from Apple on how to Restore the Library while keeping all the Playlists, Ratings, and all that other good stuff. Anyone know to do that, or at least WHERE that info is?
Thanks.
Message was edited by: MasterSpade

I have most of the iTunes Library backed up in an External HD
What exactly do you have backed up on the external?

How to restore iTunes Library from Time Machine on Mavericks?

Please, can someone give me the instructions on how to restore iTunes Library from Time Machine on Mavericks?

See Pondini's TM FAQs, for details.

How to restore iTunes library after operating system changed?

How to restore iTune library after operating system changed on the laptop? The syn is not working because it doesn't recognize the computer.

Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device: Apple Support Communities
Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive: Apple Support Communities
Sync Your iOS Device with a New Computer Without Losing Data - How-To Geek

How to restore macbook to the original settings?

how to restore macbook to the original settings?

Use its original disks to erase the hard drive and install a new OS.
(67821)

How to restore itunes library after a drive got corrupted

I have iTunes on my PC. I have my media on D drive while library file on C drive.
My C drive got corrupted and my computer started showing Blue Screen of Death. I tried every thing possible but was not able to restore any files from that drive. I had to reformat the drive and reinstall windows 7 again.
Since D drive was fine all my songs, videos, movies, apps and books are fine. How can I restore my library as is. There is no option to add the whole folder in iTunes. There are a lot of files to add individually. Please help.

Restore all of your important data from the backup of the computer.
If you have no backup, the library and playlists should be possible to recreate by following the instrucitons here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1451

How to Restore iPhoto Library from BackUp?

My iPhoto library has gone blank, although its trash has the 4,555 images. And all organization, albums, keywords, photo names, gone. Recently my backup storage, where library kept, went blank. I got a new backup, and a pro restored most of old data, and transfered to new one. So, I have the Library on the new backup, and need to restore it in the iPhoto Library, rather than create a new one, which as I understand will lose albums, keywords, etc. A friend says that way to hold down a key when opening iPhoto that will have it look for old library and restore? Not in Help or elsewhere.
I had a MacBook Pro, when this first happen. Now have iMac and have iLife 09, but don't want to instal it until photo library restored.
Sounds basic, but how to restore.
Thanks,
Armando

Armando
The simplest way to restore is to put the Library in the Pictures Folder and launch iPhoto.
Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' To select a Library.
Regards
TD

How to Restore iTunes Library after update?

Updated iMac to iTunes 11.0.5 and lost almost entire library of music (all but 3 songs). Tried to open iTunes with previous library but music I downloaded from CD's cannot be "located". Don't know how to find them. Tried to restore from back up external drive library, but those files are "locked" or I don't have permission. Purchased songs, with some exceptions, will play. Some don't though.
My library was from an much older version of iTunes (2008 or 09), could that be an issue? I don't use this desktop much at all, but would like to have the library be functional.
1. How can I restore my library getting all songs to play?
2. Should I update iTunes on my Macbook? It's using 11.0.4 now. I don't want to mess up it's library as that's the one I use.

Hi, Tluttrell.
Here is the best resource when experiencing issues with missing media after updating iTunes.
No content shows up in iTunes after updating
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1967
Regards,
Jason H.

How to restore iphoto library lost files

I need to know how to restore my iphoto library. I was trying to backup my photos using an external harddrive. I clicked the option key then opened iphoto. I tried to send the photos to my ext harddrive but could not. I even tried to import my photos to files on my desktop, then drag and drop, but could not. I've done this before but now it won't work.Now when I can't open iphoto, here is nothing in my library. I had 10,000 pictures in labeled albums. Now nothing. How do I get the option mode off? The iphoto library has a foggy-gray look to it and I can't click on anything. My photos are still in my picture folders in my finder.
Thanks for any help!

1 - Never make any changes of any dsort to the structure or content of the iphoto library - and it is best to jsut stay out of it as there are no user servicable parts in it
2 - to restore your iPhoto library you must first have a backup of it - do you? Time Machine or other backup program? or an exact copy of the iPhoto library?
3 -
I clicked the option key then opened iphoto. I tried to send the photos to my ext harddrive but could not.
exactly what did you do? this makes no sense - option launching iPhoto does not give you any option to send anything anyplace - it does give you the capability to select a different library. If you did that then option launch iPhoto again, use the select library options and select your iPhoto library on your main drive
LN

Tune up app has wrecked my iTunes collection, any ideas on how to restore my library?

Having a nightmare with itunes and an app they call Tuneup
Tune up recently did an automatic update and proceeded to scan my itunes library with a thing they are calling automagic, great I thought... but what a mess it has made, Its split albums into various sub albums, changed album artcovers, changed composers and album names into such random things as Chinese and German and lost some tracks altogether.
There is a history tab on the app which i thought would restore my library but that dosent work, I just cant restore my library to how it was before
I have tried to get support form tuneup but after 2 weeks of waiting, Im thinking that they dont care.
I have around 600 albums on itunes and im thinking to put them all back into itunes and completey restart is going to kill me.
Anyone thinking of using tune up, my advice is to stay well clear.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

Try:
- iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
When it says place the iPod in recovery mode use one of these program
For PC
RecBoot: Easy Way to Put iPhone into Recovery Mode
If necessary:
Download QTMLClient.dll & iTunesMobileDevice.dll for RecBoot
and
RecBoot tip
For MAC or PC
The Firmware Umbrella - TinyUmbrella
- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iOS device fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- Try on another computer
- If still not successful that usually indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

Had to change hard drives after failure... How to restore iTunes library?

Hello-
I had to install a new internal hard drive yesterday in my PowerBook, and am wanting to get my iTunes library onto it. I am still able to access files and folders from my old hard drive, fortunately. In order to restore my library, can I simply just copy my iTunes library from my old drive to my new one, or will there be permissions issues, etc? Thanks in advance-

I was able to do this successfully and see my library w/o trouble. However, iTunes no longer sees my computer as being 'authorized' to play my previously purchased music... Is there a simple way to correct this? I also started another topic related to this here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1124032&tstart=0

How to restore a Library

In maverick apple in there wisdom has made the user Library hidden. GREAT (@#$%). So now when in TimeMachine said folder is no longer viewable to restore.

~/Library is hidden since Lion. To unhide it, open Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities) and type:
chflags nohidden ~/Library
To have a look at backups of that folder, open a Finder window, go to that folder and open the Time Machine app (in /Applications/Utilities)

How to restore ITunes Library from Backup hard drive?

My computer crashed. I restored it -- but ITunes was wiped clean. I have all my music files and ITunes Library backed up on an external hard drive. How do I get the library from the external drive back to the computer with playlists, artwork and all intact? I guess it is more complex than just dragging the file labled library into ITunes becuase the computer won't let me do that. When I go to the original songs they are all individually in folders accorging to the artist and album -- that will take days to copy each album 1 by 1 -- I have 3,700 songs.

What you first need to do is Place the music it the Location they was in before you restored. If you had songs on the C drive in My Music folder, place them there. If iTunes was reading the music from the external, not much you have to do sincve there already there.
Now with the Library file you have to make iTUnes take the file and recreate it, this is explained here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93313

How to restore iPhoto Library

Hi
I've had to do a full system restore so need to put my iPhoto library together again.
I think I have a back up of the library and the photos in Time Machine. I also have an old iPhoto library on an old computer that I'd like to combine together with it.
What's the best way of doing this? Do I need to copy all the photos into photos or is there a way of using the iPhoto library file/folder to transfer all the photos? I'd like to be able to keep all of the albums.
I downloaded iPhoto library manager, but it couldn't find many of the photos. I'm not sure if I'm using it properly though. I can't tell if there is a way of combining libraries and whether you need to copy photos individually and whether it will maintain the albums and metadata.
I'm planning to upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion in the next few days. Is there a difference in how fixing this may work on the different Operating Systems?
Please help,
Steve

No, the operating system makes no difference.
The version of iPhoto is what matters.
The only way to merge libraries is with the paid ($20) version of Library Manager. How to do this is covered in the Help and on their website:
http://fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/Help/merging%20libraries.html
Never import one Library to another. Every version and thumbnail is imported like a distinct photo, you lose all your Albums, Keywords etc., the link between Original and Previews is destroyed, the non-destructive editing feature is ruined and so on. In summary: it's mess.

How to restore font library to original?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for