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#1
May 14th, 2004, 09:29 AM
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| Address Book - jumbled fonts! Whenever I open Address Book, the characters in all of the "name" fields come up as a bunch of small jumbled numbers. The first time I used the program, everything was fine but no longer. Any ideas?  |
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#2
May 16th, 2004, 08:30 AM
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| Do you still have the problem? If so, go to Home>Library>Preferences and trash the com.apple.AddressBook.plist Empty the trash, then open AddressBook.
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#3
May 16th, 2004, 12:24 PM
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| Have you disabled any fonts? Some say that Addressbook acts weird if you disable the font it is using.
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#4
May 18th, 2004, 10:34 AM
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| oh, it's so wierd. first of all, i could not find a preferences file for the address book in the library. so i couldn't trash the address book prefs. second, when i open font book to see if i accidentally disabled any fonts, font book shows NO FONTS and has a little spinning wheel in the upper left corner. so i tried to drag all of the system fonts into font book, and nothing happens - the little wheel keeps spinning, but the "font" column says "no fonts" even though i just dragged all of my system fonts into it. i am not sure if this is a font book problem, an adress book problem, or both. i have already reinstalled OS X once to try to solve this, and it's the same thing! looks like a trip to the genius bar is in order. |
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#6
May 18th, 2004, 09:45 PM
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| You have several places where fonts sit You have a font folder in Home>Library>Fonts. - these are what you install specifically for your own use Another font folder Hard drive>Library>Fonts - this is where all the apps install fonts Another in system folder(OS X)>Library>Fonts - these are the system fonts Did you try restarting the computer - or logging out then logging in? Have you verified and repaired permissions lately using Disk Utility? What did you install lately? Do you have an old version of ATM installed?
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