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by thibaud
Tue Jan 19, 2016 10:43 am
Forum: MainType - Support
Topic: refresh of selected font folder is not possible
Replies: 15
Views: 18954

Re: refresh performance of a large font folder

I think you should organise your font collection so that MainType only has to refresh those folders that are likely to change. My font library is tightly organized, it consist of OTF files only, structured like so: + FONT LIBRARY | + FoundryName | | + FamilyName | | | FontName-bold.otf | | | FontNa...
by thibaud
Mon Jan 18, 2016 3:32 pm
Forum: MainType - Support
Topic: refresh of selected font folder is not possible
Replies: 15
Views: 18954

Re: refresh performance of a large font folder

ok, but isn't there room for improvement here ?
most library manager (be it music or pictures) even when dealing with large libraries don't impose a 7 minutes delay every time you import new items.
by thibaud
Mon Jan 18, 2016 1:21 pm
Forum: MainType - Support
Topic: refresh of selected font folder is not possible
Replies: 15
Views: 18954

refresh of selected font folder is not possible

My main font library is quite large (around 100k fonts) it's added via a single "keep in sync" folder set to manual refresh mode. whenever I refresh the whole folder via CTRL-R or individual subfolders via either the button "synchronize the selected font folder" in the group pane...
by thibaud
Wed Jan 13, 2016 4:08 pm
Forum: MainType - Support
Topic: maintype database backup and Active fonts
Replies: 2
Views: 3059

Re: maintype database backup and Active fonts

Thanks for the answer.
I managed to extract the font folder from the windows backup.
Lesson learned. entering grouping tagging mode :)
by thibaud
Wed Jan 13, 2016 10:57 am
Forum: MainType - Support
Topic: maintype database backup and Active fonts
Replies: 2
Views: 3059

maintype database backup and Active fonts

I recently did a clean windows install, before that I did a maintype db backup. My problem is: I had a large amount of fonts installed i my previous windows install.(yes I was lazy and that was the way I "bookmarked" fonts from my main library) I was hoping to somehow get hold of that sele...
by thibaud
Tue Oct 01, 2013 8:56 am
Forum: MainType - Support
Topic: Issue with adding new fonts to 'Group' folders
Replies: 6
Views: 5500

Re: Issue with adding new fonts to 'Group' folders

You can also recreate the groups structure after refreshing the font folder. creategroups.png Note: it will not replace your current groups, so in this case it is probably best to delete the former groups. It really didn't occur to me that I could right click the items in that list. I assume that t...