>David B. Niethamer said:
>
>>Since the change to 8.6, I've gotten a lot more "this message permanently
>>deleted" in the wrong folders, necessitating a rebuild.
mikael replied:
>Generally, it sounds as if you have a problem affected by more things
>besides Emailer.
> Besides the obvious, have you installed the 8.6 Font Extension to
>prevent Font corruption? Have you removed all fonts to see if any of them
>is involved?
>
>If you're repairing with Norton, watch out if it says your DB file have
>the wrong length. If so, rebuild with plenty of space left, and save the
>both the old and new files to another disk, before you let it do the
>repair.
David
I have been trying to get the courage to move from 8.1 to 8.6 but the
more I hear about its problems, I am reluctant to do so. In the
meantime, I have been looking into the bugs associated with 8.6. The one
referred to above ("Corrupt FOND resources" whatever that is) is
described below - I have given you the URL as well - and you can download
the Font Manager there. Let me know if it helps out or if you have
already applied the updater and are still experiencing e-mailer problems.
Mary Lou
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60444
TITLE
Font Manager Update 1.0 Document and Software Article ID: Created:
Modified: 60444 7/22/99 7/10/01
TOPIC
This article comprises the Read Me and software for Font Manager Update
version 1.0.
DISCUSSION
Language/OS Required Release Date Version Read Me Software Multi-part
North American English North American English Mac OS 8.6 1999-07-28 1.0
English 312K
Hardware Requirements none Software Requirements none Earlier versions of
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About the Font Manager Updater
This document tells you how to use the Font Manager Updater, which
includes the Font Manager Update extension and the Font First Aid utility.
The Font Manager Update extension fixes the following problems in the Mac
OS 8.6 Font Manager: Corrupt FOND resources: Under certain circumstances,
the Font Manager in Mac OS 8.6 may create a corrupt resource inside some
applications or fonts. When this occurs, fonts with corrupted resources
cannot be moved and some third-party font management tools may crash. Bad
character height: In Mac OS 8.6, the height of characters in Apple's
Japanese and Traditional Chinese fonts is one pixel shorter than in Mac
OS 8.5, leading to problems displaying, editing, or printing text.
Important: The Update prevents the Font Manager from creating corrupt
FOND resources, and eliminates problems caused by these corrupt
resources. However, the update will not correct or remove any previously
corrupted resources. To repair damaged files on your computer or on disks
that are connected to your computer, you must use the Font First Aid
utility.
Who should install the updater and use the utility?
All users of Mac OS 8.6 should install the Font Manager Update and use
the Font First Aid utility.
Important: Using Font First Aid to repair bad FONDs in applications
changes resources in the application. Some applications check for changed
resources and may not run if they detect them. Make sure that you have a
backup copy of all your applications so you can reinstall them if
necessary.
Installing the updater and using the Font First Aid utility 1. Drag the
Font Manager Update icon to the Extensions folder inside the System
Folder on your computer's hard disk. 2. Restart your computer. 3.
Double-click the Font First Aid icon. You cannot use Font First Aid
before installing the Font Manager Update, or on a computer that is using
a version of system software earlier than 8.6. Note: Font First Aid will
not repair files on servers connected to your computer. To fix files on a
server, you must run the utility on the server. To repair files on locked
media, first unlock and then launch Font First Aid. 4. Follow the
instructions that appear on the screen.
Font First Aid will tell you the number of files that it can scan, and
offer the option to fix all the files at the same time or scan and fix
them one by one.
To have Font First Aid fix any files that were damaged by the Font
Manager, click Fix All.
To control which files are fixed, click Scan. Each time Font First Aid
finds a damaged file, it will tell you which file is damaged and ask you
if you want to repair the file.
Note: If you encounter an error while Font First Aid is scanning it may
be due to corrupted files on the disk. Try running Disk First Aid before
attempting another scan with Font First Aid.
For more information, refer to http://www.apple.com/support
Technical Note
Font First Aid will update the "Mac OS 8.6 All" and "Mac OS 8.6 Base"
extension sets in the Extension Manager and change their names to "Mac OS
8.6 All (FMUpdate)" and "Mac OS 8.6 Base (FMUpdate)". This is necessary
to allow the Font Manager Update to be active even when the system is
booted with extensions off.
Document Information Product Area: Mac OS System Software Category: Mac
OS 8.6 Sub Category: Printing; System Software Components;
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