-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fonts again
- From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:12:17 -0600
No apologies necessary. You are the best teacher I know (and I have 3 in my
family!) I do appreciate the detail and the step by step instructions.
Tonight I will run CHKDSK and defrag. It may have been a while since I did
the defrag bit.
Sandi
----- Original Message -----
From: "GMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:32 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fonts again
> Sandi,
> Healthy is good and causes me to diverge from that line of questioning.
> The Intel and 2.40 info are for your CPU (a 2.4Ghz Intel Celeron CPU, to
> be
> precise).
>
> Since the drive reports as healthy, I'm going to assume (right or
> wrong)
> that it's been a while since it was defragged. If that's true, it may
> help
> you to first run yet another CHKDSK (with both options checked) and then
> immediately run a Defrag on it. Depending on the size of the drive
> volume,
> you might want to make these two the last things you do before bed and let
> the Defrag run overnight.
>
> It's not the fonts that are sensitive to moving, it's the shortcuts
> that
> are broken the moment the file they point to is moved. Think of it this
> way. If I drew you a map to a city monument such as the statue of Rocky
> Balboa at the top of the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Arts, you'd
> be
> able to easily follow that map directly to the site. However, if someone
> moved the statue (and it HAS been moved from there) before you could
> follow
> the map, it would throw everything off. you'd arrive at the right place,
> but the target object wouldn't be there. The map hasn't changed, only the
> object's location has. Same thing with shortcuts. They're basically
> nothing more than a simple map to a single file or folder. If the target
> file or folder is moved, the shortcut is ruined and will no longer
> function,
> giving you an error message when you (or an app) try to use them. The
> cure
> is to either locate the shortcut and change the path statement inside it
> or
> delete the broken shortcut and create a new one based on the new location
> of
> the target.
>
> As a result, you MUST already have the fonts in the In Use folder
> BEFORE
> making the shortcuts. That way, the fonts themselves won't be in any
> danger
> of being moved elsewhere. The purpose of the separate subfolders is only
> to
> help you to easily see which ones are represented by shortcuts in the
> Windows Font folder. I hope this helps to clear things up a bit and I
> apologize if I just wasn't clear enough in my previous posts. :O)
>
> Peace,
> GMan
>
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!"
>
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