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? boxes all over my screen

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Dec 22, 2010
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For some reason, every few days I have these ? boxes all over my screen. I have to restart the laptop to clear it out. Anyone experience this before and know how to address?
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Erehy Dobon said:
Have you messed with your system's fonts?

My memory is decidedly hazy but I recall this happened to me when I installed the San Francisco font family. When I removed them everything returned to normal.

I believe the system dialog boxes are using the Lucida Grande font. Maybe it's corrupted on your system. The easiest thing to do would be to located them on a functioning system and copy them over. LucidaGrande.ttc appears to be in /System/Library/Fonts on Mojave.

Also, you might try logging in as a different user. If the dialog boxes display correctly, then there is something problematic with the fonts in your regular login account, ~/Library/Fonts.

Make sure there isn't a second copy of Lucida Grande in your user account's font folder.

Best of luck.
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Nope. It happens out of random. I then restart and it goes away.
 
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