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Fonts not Found in programs, but placeholders are in the list
Good morning,
My mum has recently stepped into an interesting problem. She has had many run ins with viruses and her computer has been restored many times. She runs a stenciling business, and uses her PC to design and cut the stencils she uses. As such, she has a huge collection of fonts. A few weeks ago, more than half of her fonts simply disappeared; there was a gap in the drop down font list in all of her programs where those fonts should be, and when they were moused over, a name would come up along with (font not found), and would be displayed in a default kind of script. Some of those fonts, when selected, would type in the default kind of text, some displayed nothing, and some caused the view of Microsoft word to suddenly shift and change, which I thought was weird. A few days later all of the fonts mystically came back, and then, this week, they disappeared again. Looking at the font folder, I couldn't find any evidence of the missing fonts, even after displaying hidden files. I'm wondering if they're housed somewhere else and are somehow in the list file for the fonts, but the path is somehow broken or lost. Any ideas about what has happened?
One: is it possible to restore these fonts, and find where they might have been hiding?
Two: if not (as I realize these details are nebulous), is it possible to remove the "missing" fonts from the list so that it isn't so cluttered, and she can begin rebuilding it?
Three: how might I back up these font files so that she can restore them in the event of another viral infection that causes a computer wipe?
Thank you all for your assistance.
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