Font Folder on network drive

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rtce
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Font Folder on network drive

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I have a drive mapped to a networked Windows 11 PC that I use to share fonts between the machines. The 'client' PC (Windows 10) will happily see the contents of the Z: mapped drive in File Explorer and show all the fonts in Z;\Fonts. I can also install them manually from Z;\Fonts.

MainType on the client machine will allow me to select Z:\Fonts as a font folder but will not add it to the list or process any of the contents.
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Re: Font Folder on network drive

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Does it help if you open the Font Folders dialog in MainType, and then modify the folder to enable "User Access"?
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Re: Font Folder on network drive

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If I open the Font Folders dialog, I see it listed multiple times - I guess every time I tried adding it. So I removed them all and re-added. It has the same date stamp for Last Refresh and Added, but still doesn't show.
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I expected it to show in the 'Groups' area.
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Re: Font Folder on network drive

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Yes, one time is sufficient ;-)

Did you enable "User Access"?
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Re: Font Folder on network drive

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Yes, the check box was enabled
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Re: Font Folder on network drive

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Maybe a reboot will fix the issue.

If not, then maybe adding another mapped drive to the same location might help.
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Re: Font Folder on network drive

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Rebooted, removed the mapped drive from the Font Folders dialog and then added from there - that seemed to recognize it and load the fonts. Odd. Thanks for the help!
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