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While trying to clean up my hard drive I found fonts in some surprising places.
1. HD>System Folder>Fonts
2. HD>Applications>MS Office 2004>Office>Fonts
3. HD>System>Library>Fonts
4. HD>Library>Fonts
5. HD>Library>Application Support>Adibe>Fonts
6. HD>Library>Application Support>Adobe>PDFL>5.0>Fonts
7. UserName>Library>Fonts
Whick folders can I safely remove?

I think you've gotten some incomplete and some misleading information in this thread about which Fonts folders you can get rid of, so I hope you're still going to be reading replies!
-First, the easy one, about getting rid of Classic Fonts folder. If you don't use Classic, you could dump whole Sys9 folder, if it's hard drive space you're looking for - about 360 megs versus just 7 megs for the Fonts folder.
-You asked if, as the only user, it's safe to get rid of the Fonts folders /Library/Fonts (the common designation for what you called "HD>Library>Fonts") or ~/Library/Fonts (reference for your "UserName>Library>Fonts")
It depends what you mean by "safe"; nothing terrible will happen. But I see by your list of Fonts folders that you have Microsoft Office. The fonts in the Office Fonts folder (your number 2) is a ringer of sorts. Those fonts aren't accessed; they're copied into the User Fonts folder ~/Library/Fonts when you first run office and they're accessed from there. So if you want any of those and you dump the User Fonts or specific fonts from in that folder, you won't be able to use the fonts anymore.
-Office/Fonts: As just described, these aren't being used. You can use Tiger's archive command to squeeze them into a smaller folder, and/or offload them to a CD of font backups to save space.
-/System/Library/Fonts: don't touch the folder or the fonts! (You can get rid of some - keep reading)
-Adobe/Fonts: This folder is accessed only by Adobe applications, so it's up to you how many of the fonts you want to keep around. But you need the folder there because of the important folder that's inside...
-A FOLDER YOU DIDN'T MENTION: There's a folder inside Adobe/Fonts, named Reqrd, and inside that is a folder named Base, which has IMPORTANT fonts inside. These fonts are required ("Reqrd") by many Adobe applications, which might not work correctly, or at all, if they're not stored where expected; some are used for dialogs, palette labels, etc. So, you can't get rid of these folders.
-///Adobe/PDFL/5.0/Fonts: The fonts in here are used for rendering missing fonts in PDF files, so you should keep them available.
Some general comments, with your disk space concerns in mind:
- get rid of fonts rather than folders
- archive the fonts someplace in case you change your mind.
-if you can't leave the /System/Library/Fonts alone, make sure you DO NOT REMOVE: Monaco, Helvetica (unless it's immediately replaced elsewhere with another version - but elsewhere means someplace that the OS can see and use it, not in the Adobe Fonts folder), Geneva, LucidaGrande, Keyboard, and LastResort. (These all have .dfont extensions.) If you have AquaKanaRegular.otf and AquaKanaBold.otf in that folder, you should leave them there, too; they're not on Apple's official "don't remove" list, but there's lots of anecdotal evidence that removing them causes some problems. In addition, if you use Preview, the four MM fonts in this folder should stay (HelveLTMM, Helvetica LT MM, and the two TimesMM fonts)
-keep the most popular web fonts, or pages will look bad with lots of substitution: Verdana, Trebuchet, Georgia, Times New Roman, Comic Sans. These are probably in the /library/fonts folder.
-If you're dumping duplicates, don't assume the same name means they're the same. And don't assume that the Microsoft versions are inferior to the Tiger versions; it's almost always the other way around. Of the twelve fonts supplied by both Microsoft Office 2004 and Tiger, seven are different versions, and in every case the Microsoft version is later and better. MS's Arial has 6x the characters of Tiger's; MS Trebuchet has 250 more than Tiger's, and MS Verdana has 450 more characters. Check version numbers (through Font Book or Finder's Get Info) to compare fonts when you're picking the keeper.
Okay, I think that's the detail you need <g>

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