Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

• If you are really stumped, have an extra hard disk that you can use, and some time on your
hands. Create two partitions on the disk and install a clean system on each. Then install
the suspected application on one partition and compare the resulting file systems. If you
do this correctly, then any additional files on the application partition belong to the
application. (There are a number of ways of creating directory lists, including all files,
and then comparing the lists using a variety of command-line and text-based tools.)
• Finally (and this should probably be the first step you try), search the Internet for
information about the application and hidden files. Like most things, it’s unlikely you are
the first person to encounter this situation, and perhaps the answers you are looking for
are already out there.
NOTE Even though you might not want these hidden files around once you remove the associated
application, if you are currently using the application, it’s likely that you need these files
for it to work correctly, so use caution here and don’t delete hidden files just because they are
hidden—it’s likely you won’t like the results.
Managing Fonts
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Fonts may not seem like something that needs to be managed too much, and in OS X, fonts don’t
tend to cause many of the issues that they have been attributed to in the past. Still, if you tend to
accumulate lots of fonts, you may want to manage them for a number of reasons:
• To be able to easily find the exact type of font you are looking for quickly and easily from
a large list of installed fonts
• To “turn off” unused fonts, since many applications (especially graphics apps and word
processors) load all active fonts into memory when they launch (slowing up launch time
and consuming memory)
OS X, beginning with Panther, included an application named Font Book that will help you
manage your fonts. Font Book (Figure 6-7) provides the ability to find, preview, organize, and
switch on or off all the fonts installed on your system.
Figure 6-7. The Font Book application is included in Leopard to help manage fonts on your system.