Fontnuke for os sierra how to#

This should help novice computer users and those unfamiliar with standard notation to learn how to navigate to the folders mentioned throughout this article. I can't tell you exactly what the path to your home account looks like (since I don't know your short user name), so here are some handy notes of reference.Ī file specification is the entire path from the root of the volume it resides on to the end of the file name. For example, here is the file specification for the Terminal application: This is known as a hierarchical file specification in geek terminology, but it's called a canonical filename for short.

The beginning forward slash (as in the example to the Terminal application) of a file specification is always the root level of your boot volume.

~/ The tilde-forward slash pair is always your home directory (folder), i.e., the home folder of the current user login session. So in most cases, the path to the Fonts folder in your home user account would be ~/Library/Fonts/. Which, if you start by double clicking the icon of the boot drive on the desktop, the path can also be presented as /Users/ your_user_account /Library/Fonts/. The following words: program, application or app all have the same meaning. I use them interchangeably throughout this article.

Fontnuke for os sierra mac os#

This section examines each of the various Mac OS releases (Panther 10.3 through High Sierra 10.13) and provides the recommended minimum list of the fonts to be stored in the System folder for that particular release of the operating system in order for it and most third party applications to run properly. These lists also include the fonts most needed for the web, iLife and iWork. The fonts listed should always be active on your Macintosh for OS X and should not be removed.