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Slowly but surely I am organizing my 30,000 fonts. MainType does a great job of loading them. Sometimes I see duplicate entries for fonts that previously existed in multiple places - even after refreshing the folder. Example: myFont.otf exists in 2 places. MT has an entry for each file. I remove one...

At that point the Tag Search panel becomes active, and since it has no tags selected, it returns an empty list. FWIW, I wouldn't expect that behavior until a tag is selected. User might want to see what tags are in the list without selecting. Why should it be reinitialized? You can active the Tag S...

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If a tag search is active and a group is selected, the font list is updated with the fonts in the group, but the Tag Search panel is not reinitialized.

Great!
That corrects the first 2 issues.
When I click the scrollbar of the Tag Search panel it still clears the font list.
Thanks.

Thanks for the quick reply!
That version didn't change anything. See attached.

When I select fonts, the tag editor is not showing which tags are assigned to it. Is it supposed to? The Info Panel is reporting the tags correctly. When I select multiple fonts in order to assign tags to all of them, all of the tags in the Tag Panel are greyed out and clicking on them does nothing....

That makes sense. I didn't quite catch it in your original reply... I don't use MainType's backup feature because my fonts are included in my backup files. So in case anyone finds this thread useful, I would add that Tags (with Ratings) can be exported to an xml file. In the event of a disaster, if ...

At some point, I noticed that I had almost 1000 fonts installed - many of which I didn't know about or want. It is my assumption that various software packages have installed them and it is a major pain to pare them down! As I get the installed font base the way I want it, it would be great to be ab...

Would there be a better way to save a restorable backup of the current state of the fonts on my computer?
Thanks.

If I were to restore a backup, would it restore the installed fonts to the exact state of when the backup was run?
Thanks.

Hi:
When I uninstall fonts that are in Windows/Fonts, I see that the files are no longer present in that folder, but they are still available in MT Library. Where are the files moved to?
Thanks.

That helps a lot.
Thanks very much (and on Sunday no less!)

My question is not clear... I have a font installed in my system called Candy Rnd BTN. When I have "Archive Fonts" selected and I am reviewing a phrase, I don't see the "Candy" version unless I scroll to the bottom of the preview window and look in the "Print and Preview&quo...

In MT 6.0.0, when I choose to view "Active Fonts", in the main font viewing window, some of the fonts are listed under accordion sections: Installable Print and Preview Print and Preview, No subsetting Restricted License When I view a font in "Installable", it is already installe...

Thanks.