Comments on: Mac Tips: Find and Eliminate Corrupt Fonts in OSX

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 02 May 2011 06:21:42 +0000

Go to Applications, click on Fontbook. When it opens, go to File and click on Validate Fonts. It will scroll thru and ID the problem fonts. In the gray banner near the top it will say “All”. Scroll down to Errors and Warnings, click and the problem fonts will pop up. Check the small box to the left of each problem font and hit remove. It will gobble them right up!

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:11:27 +0000

I do this and find a lot of corrupt and bad fonts so I attempt to clean it and it freezes on me every time. Nothing else running and my macbookpro is a gem. are there other programs out there like this?

By: Kurt Harlan

Kurt Harlan — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:28:14 +0000

Take a look at this page for some possible solutions . . .
http://word.mvps.org/mac/CorruptFontErrors.html

HTH

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:47:08 +0000

I have a Mac OSX at work which is relatively new to me. When I open Word it gives me warnings for corrupt fonts which takes hours to hit “okay” to each one. When I go into the Font Book they are not listed. However, in the HD, I did search for font and found multiple font folders – one with 1,430 items which says it is located at Users/AWDBT/Library, one with 285 items which is located in Library, one with 36 items which is located in System/Library, one with 5 items, Word Fonts (which the corrupt fonts aren’t in there either), the Font Book (which they are not in either), and some additional font folders. Is there a way to validate those fonts? Again, this is a work Mac, so I don’t know who put all these fonts on it, but obviously 100s are corrupt when I open Word. Thanks, Karen