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You can Import/Export Tags, Ratings, and Notes from the Tools menu. The xml files can be imported onto another PC. The backup files can also be copied to another PC, and restored using the FMS Configuration utility. The size of the vault backup can be greatly reduced (1Gbyte to about 300 Mbytes) us...

re: "Most of the information about a font such as font name, number of characters, version, foundry, but also tags and notes are stored in the database. However the backup is primarily meant to be on the same machine, not for sharing." So building on this thread, if I do backups they aren'...

Oh dang. I wanted to ignore all the system fonts in my library. If I don't like a font, I just uninstall it.

Hello, how can I get my ignore fonts option to work? It won't ignore any fonts and I get a "failed" message when I try. Reason given: "still active." So if a font is present and installed, isn't that by definition an active font? What other kind of font is going to be ignored exc...

Sorry to keep posting individual posts but I'm giving more information which I need to include to solve this problem. I added the Google Drive folder to MainType and I can't even delete it or uninstall it from the program. Why would that be ? I also added it again and unchecked recursive option and ...

I found the recursive option under Group options. I've unchecked it. And I still can't drag and drop fonts to my Google Drive folder. What else could I be doing wrong ? Thank you.

Hello and thanks for your help. What exactly is the Recursive Option ? And how do I turn it off so I can drag and drop fonts to the Google Drive folder ? I'm checking MainType program options and not seeing a way to do that. Thank you.

I've included the original instructions below (from the MainType manual) for attempting to sync fonts using a Google Drive folder. I setup Google Drive and added a folder from it to MainType on both a PC and a laptop. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but I can't seem to add any fonts to the Google ...