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I've been trying to work with that all day and apparently am doing something wrong. When I choose Tools|Import and Export|Export Tags and Ratings, and then enter a filename, nothing seems to happen. It doesn't create the xml file. I've tried selecting a few fonts to see if this was the problem, but ...

I very much like MainType, but do think a bit more comprehensive way to delete fonts would be helpful. I have well over 30,000 fonts on my system, sync'd on dropbox and downloaded to three computers. I know for sure, that many of these are duplicates, but manually deleting individual font files woul...

Erwin Denissen wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2017 7:43 am Currently there is no way to share them. This could be very useful for people wish to manage their fonts on multiple computers, so we'll add this to our to-do list.

That would be tremendous!

Could someone please provide a reference for the icons that are displayed in the font list? O is obviously opentype, but there are blue and green versions of this icon. Then I have some that look like a multi-page icon with a C on it, etc. I'm thinking this could be helpful in trying to clean up my ...

I've had my font files on dropbox for a long while now. However, unless I'm missing something, MainType's files are all local and the tags & groups remain on the computer. So as near as I can tell, there's no built-in facility to keep libraries in sync on multiple computers, other than having th...

I have found MainType7 (just upgraded to 8) to be very good with managing fonts overall. I used to manage a graphic design department and handled much of the IT because it's so much more intricate that typical IT/server management. The subject of fonts and groups has always been an issue - particula...

I'm sure this has been discussed, but searching didn't yield me any results. I have a small virtual team of people who share a repository of fonts on a cloud folder (dropbox). This has worked well for us in terms of ensuring each team member has access to the fonts needed for a given project. The pr...

I know this is a long and much debated subject, but I'd love to have MT use the internal font information as a starting point. Many customers would likely presume this information correct, which we generally know to be a bad idea. However, I believe most of it would be correct, and when you have a l...

I read another thread that was sort of on this topic, but not exactly what I was looking for. Is there a way for MainType to offer the opportunity to clean up duplicate font FILES. You can see in this screen cap, for example, I have four (yes, FOUR) files for Century Condensed. Of course, this is fr...

Erwin, I may have discovered the problem, although I think it bears looking in to on your end. I have a large folder called graphics, which includes subfolders for fonts, images, actions, etc. All of this resides in my Dropbox folder so that my computers are sync'd with each other. To avoid navigati...

Will do. I did the backup - which files do you need to troubleshoot.

Yes, it's the most current version.

Yes, I was expecting the popup in the bottom right corner of the sceen that shows the progress of the library update. However, when I click refresh folders, nothing happens... I did reboot...

Anywhere in particular I should look to sleuth this out?

I completely uninstalled MainType and have reinstalled it. I have a font folder on a local, internal drive, with approximately 35,000 fonts. I've added that folder to the library and selected recursive indexing. It appears nothing is happening, but I can't tell. Below is a screncap of the folder scr...

I don't know what code would be necessary for this to be done, but perhaps there could be an option presented after folder sync highlighting older versions. I fear I have made a mess of my library as I have been "deleting" older versions of fonts and, based on what I'm reading here, believ...

Just revisiting this issue after reinstalling MainType... Is there a way to export the group information without either exporting fonts and/or backing up and restore the entire library. I have several font groups that are project based for different clients. So all I really need is (essentially) a l...