Re: Font problem in Word and Excel after installing tiger

On 25/05/05 9:14, in article BEB9F276.47C7%vousortmann@xxxxxxx, "Carsten &
Uni Vous Ortmann" <vousortmann@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 24/05/05 23:35, in article BEB8EC1C.13EAC%bethrosengard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> "Beth Rosengard" <bethrosengard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 5/24/05 2:10 PM, in article BEB96502.47BD%vousortmann@xxxxxxx, "Carsten &
>> Uni Vous Ortmann" <vousortmann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On 24/05/05 22:38, in article 1gx2j36.1w5jy4f17x9br4N%matt@xxxxxxxxxxx,
>>> "matt neuburg" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Carsten & Uni Vous Ortmann <vousortmann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm having a problem with MS Word after installing Tiger.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I try to open Word or Excel they'll say it's Optimizing Font Menu
>>>>> Performance and then say Font "****" is corrupt and should be removed.
>>>>>
>>>>> It starts in the v's and w's (Verdana, Webdings etc.) and then changes to
>>>>> font names made up of weird symbols.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've tried deleting ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office Font Cache
>>>>> (11),
>>>>> (by the kind advice of Ms. Beth Rosengard) and that took care of it for a
>>>>> day or something like that. Now it's back, and it's very annoying
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anybody know what might be causing this?
>>>>
>>>> I don't think anyone knows (nor is it known why the problem does not
>>>> appear on all machines). Try also running Font Finagler on this machine,
>>>> though. m.
>>>
>>> Do you mean that you've heard of this problem before, but never found an
>>> explanation or a solution?
>>
>> Hi Carsten,
>>
>> Glad you made it here :-). There have been a couple of similar reports but
>> it's not a universal problem. Most people never see it.
>>
>> In addition to deleting Word's font cache again, you can try cleaning out
>> the system's caches as well, using a utility such as "Tiger Cache Cleaner"
>> (check VersionTracker to get the latest version). This has helped some
>> people but not others. Please let us know how this works for you.
>
> Thanks. I'll certainly try that - I'm downloading it as I write this. I use
> Cocktail every two or three weeks. Does that do something similar? (I just
> want to knew before I pay for TCC :-)
> ?
> So, now I have it and have read the User Manual. It lokks like a fairly
> simple but still thorough operation. I'll try it and report back.
>

I ran Clean Local Cache and Clean System Cache on Medium Cleaning, the
computet tokk forever to reboot afterwards, but for now the problem's gone.
I hope it stays gone. Thanks.

If it returns I'll buzz back here and ask for help.

I someone can tell me a little bit about the difference between TCC and
Cocktail (and maybe OnyX, which doesn't have a Tiger version yet, though),
I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks for all
Carsten

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