Disabling recently added fonts (viewing by date added)

jestershinra · Dec 7, 2004, 08:47 PM

Hi,
I recently restarted my Mac, and bootup took around 12 minutes. I realized that I'd inadvertenly added about 2500 fonts, and, after searching, determined that this was a probable cause. Here's my issue:

I want to delete the fonts most recently added. I need to keep a few hundred for various reasons, but I'm wondering if there's a way to to go the fonts folder or something and view the most recently added...any ideas?

Thanks!

advres · Dec 7, 2004, 09:19 PM

Go to your fonts folder and look at it in list mode (the middle button between icon view and column view). Next to all the files there the date it was modified should be listed. If it was today for example, once you are in this display, hit that 'date modified' tab at the top and it should put all your fonts in order from present to past or vise versa. click the first one you want to get rid of, scroll down until you see the last one from this date and shift-click that one. Drag to the trash or a differnt folder somewher if you still want to keep them and viola. done

jestershinra · Dec 8, 2004, 09:17 AM

No- that didn't work. The modified date doesn't correspond to the date that they were added. Any other ideas?

shavs · Dec 8, 2004, 12:54 PM

If you used font book to install them then it copied them so the date created should equate to the date installed.

decksnap · Dec 8, 2004, 01:14 PM

If you're using that many fonts, I recommend that you get yourself a real font management program, such as Extensis Suitcase.

Dec 7, 2004, 08:47 PM	#1
jestershinra macrumors regular Join Date: Sep 2004	Disabling recently added fonts (viewing by date added) Hi, I recently restarted my Mac, and bootup took around 12 minutes. I realized that I'd inadvertenly added about 2500 fonts, and, after searching, determined that this was a probable cause. Here's my issue: I want to delete the fonts most recently added. I need to keep a few hundred for various reasons, but I'm wondering if there's a way to to go the fonts folder or something and view the most recently added...any ideas? Thanks!
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Dec 8, 2004, 01:14 PM	#5
decksnap macrumors 68030 Join Date: Apr 2003	If you're using that many fonts, I recommend that you get yourself a real font management program, such as Extensis Suitcase. __________________ My cat's breath smells like catfood.
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Dec 7, 2004, 09:19 PM	#2
advres Guest Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Boston	Go to your fonts folder and look at it in list mode (the middle button between icon view and column view). Next to all the files there the date it was modified should be listed. If it was today for example, once you are in this display, hit that 'date modified' tab at the top and it should put all your fonts in order from present to past or vise versa. click the first one you want to get rid of, scroll down until you see the last one from this date and shift-click that one. Drag to the trash or a differnt folder somewher if you still want to keep them and viola. done
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Dec 8, 2004, 09:17 AM	#3
jestershinra Thread Starter macrumors regular Join Date: Sep 2004	No- that didn't work. The modified date doesn't correspond to the date that they were added. Any other ideas?
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Dec 8, 2004, 12:54 PM	#4
shavs macrumors newbie Join Date: Jun 2004	If you used font book to install them then it copied them so the date created should equate to the date installed.
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