"Installed" fonts not showing up in Windows Fonts folder

Anonymous
2018-07-23T12:31:42+00:00

Hi guys,

Unfortunately, none of the previous answers solves my problem.

I try to install fonts. According to Windows that also works but I cannot see the installed fonts in the Windows Fonts folder and neither do they show up in Illustrator. 

When I copy a font file into the Windows Fonts folder it says "The "xxxxxx" font is already installed. Do you want to replace it?" - I click yes, but still - the font does not show.

It's not a problem of the font file as it was working previously. Same happens to hundreds of other fonts. Says they are installed but they don't show and they are not selectable in other applications.

Thanks for your help!

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-09-17T18:38:59+00:00

    I got the same issue on one computer. I tried to install some barcode fonts to c:\windows\fonts folder.

    all other computers work without issue but this one computer keep saying installed but not showing the barcode fonts.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-08-19T08:07:09+00:00

    Has anyone had any luck installing for all users through Powershell?

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-07-13T20:42:52+00:00

    We had the same problem, it was driving us crazy!   Everytime we "reinstalled" our fonts, when we did a re-start on the computer they were gone.   Finally fixed!  Fonts need to be installed with "install for all users".  Drag and drop does not work.

    Hope that helps

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-06-23T20:29:21+00:00

    Hi,

    I ran into the same issue and solved it kind of accidentally while experienting. I did not bother to test it out properly, but here is what I did:

    1. My font file to be installed "Franklin Gothic Heavy" was located on the desktop. Two other fonts of the same family had been installed already by the time in Fonts. Whenever I tried to install Heavy, it produced the same error you encountered.
    2. So I had the Franklin Gothic font family subfolder opened in one window, and drag and dropped the other two members of the family to the desktop, creating two copies.
    3. I renamed Franklin Gothic Heavy in accordance with the naming scheme of the two older fonts (Franklin Gothic Medium - framd, Franklin Gothic Medium Italic - framdit), thus to: frahy. (I believe this step was not neccesarily though, but I leave it here just in case.)
    4. I drag and dropped the two originally installed fonts from the desktop back into its font family subfolder (curiously, windows did not prompt me about them already having been installed.)
    5. Then I drag and dropped Heavy as well. Now I cannot remember if it showed up at this time in the font family's subfolder or it took another attempt of drag and dropping one of the older files from the desktop, but it appeared within a few seconds and showed in applications as well.

    I hope it works for you, too.

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