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I just discovered that when I used Migration Assistant, it didn't migrate the fonts in Font Book on my iMac to my MacBook Pro. How do I get the missing fonts copied over to the MBP? Can I use Font Book's add command for bulk transfer or is it just for individual fonts? I looked at the Export Collection command but that seems to be all fonts and I only need to migrate 357 fonts.
MacBook Pro Retina
Tom, the only problem is that the MacBook Pro came with 236 fonts, while the iMac has 594 fonts. I only want to copy the 358 fonts that are different. But you did give me an idea: I'll delete the 2 Font folders on the MBP, then d&d the same folders on the iMac into their appropriate locations on the MBP
romad wrote:
What about the folder labeled "FontCollections" in ~/Library/ ?
I think that is just the data about which fonts should be listed in a "Collection" if you have used that feature in the Font Book app. I have found that feature buggy and don't use it much. But can't hurt to transfer.
What I actually ended up doing was to use the Export Collection feature in FontBook on the iMac. I then had two folders on the desktop: Computer and User. I next opened FontBook on the MacBook Pro and compared what it had under User with the exported User folder on the iMac desktop. If the font was in both, I deleted it from the exported folder, eventually leaving only fonts NOT on the MBP. I then had the MBP FontBook add the fonts from the folder on the iMac desktop. It did so, and identified one major corrupted font (which wasn't added). I did the same thing with the MBP Computer collection and the exported iMac Computer collection.
So both iMac & MBP basically have the same fonts on them now. I also compared the FontCollections folder on each computer and found one entry in the iMac folder that wasn't in the MBP folder; a drag & drop fixed that.
I would just put them on a thumb drive and transfer them. Once on your MBP, drag/drop all of them into Home/Library/Fonts.
Normally all user installed fonts go into home/library/fonts, and Apple doesn’t put any there, so transferring just that one folder may do the trick.
What about the folder labeled "FontCollections" in ~/Library/ ?
Font Book Migration?
