Extensis Suitcase initialization troubles....

[Magnus]

I shut my comp off as I went to lunch. I come back, Suitcase won't initialize. That means I have no fonts other than what's loaded on my system. I'm in OS 10.3.

Any idea why it's constipated?

"The function of a warrior is to eliminate an exterior enemy presence. A warrior is an antitoxin, a protector. The warrior does combat where and when necessary and not otherwise. "


- Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon

[defjoe]

Throw out the preference file but not the font data file (cause you don't want to lose that)

see if that helps

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[Magnus]

Bah, it's even worse now. It seems some of my fonts as of yesterday decided to go poo poo on me...

I'll give that a shot though defjoe...supposedly my tech guy is coming intoday with a bunch of things to do, so hopefully that'll help too.

"The function of a warrior is to eliminate an exterior enemy presence. A warrior is an antitoxin, a protector. The warrior does combat where and when necessary and not otherwise. "


- Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon

[defjoe]

you might have to re install... could be a corrupt font that corruped all your data files

'I will become the most powerful Jedi ever!'

[aprilcartergrant]

Just wait until you load a corrupt font and try to launch a Microsoft Office product (Word, Excel, or PowerPoint). I just installed like 2000 fonts, and Office suddenly wouldn't work (when I would initialize, the start-up screen would get stuck on 'optimizing fonts...' and automatically quit). After researching, I found that Microsoft does this as an added service to Mac-users. (Ha, ha.) Every time you launch an Office app, it previews every single font... if it encounters even one corrupt file, it aborts the process.

Pain in the ass. I had to go through everysingle file (according to the troubleshooting, you have to do it by process of elimination... removing one font at a time, restarting, and attempting a launch... imagine how long that takes with 2000 fonts).

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[PrintDriver]

Don't you have a program like Font Doctor? I know it's not the best but it narrows things down quite a bit without all that trial and error.

2000 fonts? Whew. All loaded? With no suitcase program?
Yikes. Asking for trouble.

PrintDriver is a large format digital print dude. His advice/opinions may not apply to the 4color/offset/web world of printing

[defjoe]

April...that also happens when you have a font conflict. but of course it doesn't tell you what 2 fonts are conflicting.

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[aprilcartergrant]

Oh, yeah... when I tried to launch FontDoctor, it would quit.

That was why I had to resort to the other 'solution.'

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[defjoe]

it's a pain in the butt. it was happening at home to me and I read up on it. I thought i had it and then it came back again. but I got a new computer since then and reinstalled everything. that solved it for good. ;)

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