Hi,
I have a technical question on uninstalling :
When we uninstall fonts from the C:/Windows/Fonts, where does the physical font file go ?
Where does it hide ?
Recently bought MT10 to clean up a big mess, I had over 5000 fonts installed in my Windows/Fonts directory for the last 12 years.
I have 2 screens, launched MT and starting uninstalling a lot of fonts, while watching the Fonts directory decreasing on the other screen !
So I uninstalled a group of 3 Humanist777, the 3 files actually disappeared from the directory.
Then I searched in my C:/ for Humnst777 and Humanist 777 and had ZERO result.
Nothing in my Trash bin either, that's reassuring.
To make a LIVE test, I reinstalled one, it came back ! Magic !
They DO come back !
Uninstalling fonts from Windows/Fonts : Where do they go?
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Re: Uninstalling fonts from Windows/Fonts : Where do they go?
MainType saves all fonts that it finds in its vault. Make a backup of the vault using FMSConfig to ensure that you can recover from hard disk failure, etc.
Re: Uninstalling fonts from Windows/Fonts : Where do they go?
Ok, thanks for the tip.
I found that vault
But the fonts are encrypted in a file,
which means that I'm stuck with MT if I want to recover some fonts that are nowhere else anymore and weights a ton ?
I mean, my WHOLE font directory weights 1.5Go (9000 fonts), my Windows/Fonts weights 900Mb with 2450 files
and the 1500-ish that I uninstalled today already weight 1Gig ?
WHY ?
That IS scary !
I found that vault
But the fonts are encrypted in a file,
which means that I'm stuck with MT if I want to recover some fonts that are nowhere else anymore and weights a ton ?
I mean, my WHOLE font directory weights 1.5Go (9000 fonts), my Windows/Fonts weights 900Mb with 2450 files
and the 1500-ish that I uninstalled today already weight 1Gig ?
WHY ?
That IS scary !
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Re: Uninstalling fonts from Windows/Fonts : Where do they go?
The vault is a database, that contains a copy of each font you add to the library. This ensures that you'll be able to install and load your fonts, even if you no longer have a copy on disk.
Both standard and professional edition have a feature that allows you to export your fonts to your file system. Just select one or more fonts and select Export from the File menu.
Both standard and professional edition have a feature that allows you to export your fonts to your file system. Just select one or more fonts and select Export from the File menu.