Why do I keep seeing FONTS in the TRASH as "Recovered Files"?

My computer isn't crashing... but most of the time when I restart I see that there's something in the trash.
Oh, it's a Recovered Files folder! Wow, must be important?
Nah. It's just a few random fonts.
This actually happens quite often. And I don't even remember using those fonts. It happens even when I don't use Word or InDesign.
I think it might be Safari?
???

It is Safari, as I have occasionally seen the same thing. I think what happens is this:
1. You go to a site that specifies some odd-ball font that you do not have installed, but you do have a copy of it somewhere (in my case I have an enormous font collection on a backup drive)
2. The system now knows where all fonts are--don't remember whether this started in Leopard or Snow Leopard--regardless of WHERE those fonts are, and Safari has access to this info
3. Since the font isn't installed Safari asks you if it can use the font
4. Safari copies the font into a temporary location, probably one of the standard tmp folders in /private/var/folders/ and leaves the font there
5. When you shutdown and subsequently restart the system disposes of a lot of gunk that gets left in the tmp folder, and puts said gunk in the Recovered Items folder.
If it annoys you to have stuff in the Trash, you could go ahead and install the fonts. However I have never bothered since TextEdit ALWAYS leaves a bit of trash behind, and I use it nearly every day, so I almost always have to empty the Trash and the Recovered Items folder anyway.
Francine
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