Behold II Smartphone with Android
March 2, 2005 1:15 AM PST
Mac OS X 10.3.8 Special Report: Clearing font caches for faster startup
For users experiencing slow startup times after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.3.8, font-related corruption may be to blame.
Using the shareware utility Font Finagler to delete font caches will often restore normal startup speeds if indeed the bloated or corrupt files are to blame.
Topic Index:
- Release Notes, Download Links
- Disappearing hard drive space
- Wake from Sleep Issues
- Audio problems
- Safari World Leaks
- Excessive sensitivity in automatic screen brightness feature on PowerBooks
- Routers and slow network performance
- Printer problems, solutions
- Displays pane of System Preferences not working
- Clearing font caches for faster startup
- iBook G4 F12 key not working
- Trackpad problems
- Problems with third-party mice
- Slow iChat operation
- Problems with Java
- Increased G5 fan activity
- FireWire warning only provided for Combo update
- Moving Apple's installed applications prevents them from being updated
- Problems installing via Software Update
- Bluetooth Issues
- Positive reports
Each restart causes the font caches to increase in size.
Emptying them resets the problem, but does not prevent it happening.