My wife has a imac running sierra. She recently upgraded to mojave and it broke CS5. The apps would not launch. I wiped the drive and reinstalled Sierra. I reinstalled CS5 and copied all her files back to the hard drive. I did not use a back up copy but installed from scratch. So CS5 works but most of the fonts are missing. She showed me the folder where her fonts were stored and also the folder for fonts in CS5. They have the same data. I'm a windows guy and am slowly learning my way around a mac but I am not sure what to do here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Fonts not available in CS5
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Are you using additional font management tools like FontExplorer or Suitcase?
If not, fonts should be placed in those folders:
Font paths for…
…all users (put fonts there – they'll show up for all users)
/Library/Fonts/
…user (put fonts there, if many users are using the Mac and all do have their own fonts)
~/Library/Fonts/
…system (don't put fonts there – just fonts used by the system go here)
/System/Library/
If that doesn't help, it could be most likely the font cache. Standard caches can be cleaned by booting into Safe Mode (hold shift when starting up) and afterwards booting again normally. Application caches like the one from Adobe can be cleaned most easily with FontNuke https://www.jamapi.com/products/fontnuke/ .
Still problems? Could be the font itself. What exactly doesn't show up (full font name with extension and application)?
If not, fonts should be placed in those folders:
Font paths for…
…all users (put fonts there – they'll show up for all users)
/Library/Fonts/
…user (put fonts there, if many users are using the Mac and all do have their own fonts)
~/Library/Fonts/
…system (don't put fonts there – just fonts used by the system go here)
/System/Library/
If that doesn't help, it could be most likely the font cache. Standard caches can be cleaned by booting into Safe Mode (hold shift when starting up) and afterwards booting again normally. Application caches like the one from Adobe can be cleaned most easily with FontNuke https://www.jamapi.com/products/fontnuke/ .
Still problems? Could be the font itself. What exactly doesn't show up (full font name with extension and application)?
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You obvisously failed to either copy all of her files or failed to copy them to the correct location. "Her files" includes any fonts she added that were not part of the original OS installation.
As organicCPU correctly stated, fonts are generally installed in the OS and not in the application, both on macOS and Windows. MacOS is different from Windows only in the exact pathname to the system fonts folder and in that macOS has multiple font folders, a system wide "all users" folder and separate "per user" folders.
One possible error could be that you installed the fonts into a user specific fonts folder while logged in as yourself. These would not be visible when your wife logged in under her user name. Alternately, you may have simply overlooked copying the fonts over from the old system.
She has acquired many fonts over the years from various sources. She has them in a folder she created called fonts.
I copied them to the OS folder Font Book.
When you open the font book folder they appear to be installed. But when she opens any CS5 program she will get a message similar to this:
So if someone could let me know what I missed that would be excellent!
I copied them to the OS folder Font Book.
When you open the font book folder they appear to be installed. But when she opens any CS5 program she will get a message similar to this:
So if someone could let me know what I missed that would be excellent!
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Try to drag the fonts (or the contents of ALL FONTS) into one of the appropriate fonts folder, like:
/Library/Fonts/
Though, I've always been using flat font files without subfolders in an environment without a dedicated font management system, it may work with any folder structure of your liking.
Font Book is some kind of a native macOS font management app. However, for serious design workflows I don't touch it in favor of the already mentioned third-party apps FontExplorer or Suitcase. With those tools, you organise fonts with more freedom to put them more or less at locations you like.
EDIT: Some more background info
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201722
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201749
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html
/Library/Fonts/
Though, I've always been using flat font files without subfolders in an environment without a dedicated font management system, it may work with any folder structure of your liking.
Font Book is some kind of a native macOS font management app. However, for serious design workflows I don't touch it in favor of the already mentioned third-party apps FontExplorer or Suitcase. With those tools, you organise fonts with more freedom to put them more or less at locations you like.
EDIT: Some more background info
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201722
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201749
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html
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Thanks Organic. The background info looks like it will be a big help.
