"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. Paul Chou 1,466 Reputation points
    2019-03-19T08:43:13+00:00

    I respect your decision, but just to remind you. The issue could be caused by a corrupt user account or corrupt system files. If you do not try my suggestions to check, the issue will always be there. You can send a feedback in the feedback hub, by the way.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-03-19T09:37:27+00:00

    Hi Paul, 

    Thanks for your effort. I use Windows 10 Pro, Version 1803, Build 17134.648

    Of course, I think all of us tried all those things and many many more several times in all kind of combinations .... 

    But now. I think I've found a solution. Not exactly sure yet why it worked but I'm working on a script that seems to solve the issue, at least in my case. 

    I try to have it ready within the next days and hopefully, it releases many of us from this endless pain. Makes me sick when I think of how many hours I spent on this ****.

    And if anybody from Microsoft ever visits their forum and sees this post: Shame on you, this was my worst "customer" treatment I ever experienced! In case my solution will work for all remaining victims, it took us 6 months of continuous solution suggestion efforts by so many people and below every post, you ask "Did this solve your issue?" - f*** you

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-03-29T07:06:34+00:00

    I did a windows update and somewhere they added a change to the way it installs fonts.  This update broke my powershell script that would update servers in the render farm.  What a nightmare :(.   Only way I got this to work was select all the fonts and right click to get the context menu to do the "install for all users".  I will start digging into the code to find a solution since i cant do updates on every server every time I add a font.  

    "Install" only installs it for the current user and does not put it in c:\windows\fonts

    "Install for all users" it works just like before and u have to be an admin for it to show up.

    Thanks MS..

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-04-18T01:22:56+00:00

    Whatever Microsoft did to the account settings to try and force people into setting up remote instead of local accounts is what caused the font issues. I had some luck setting up a local only Admin account and installing fonts through it but it's still sketchy.

    As a designer this is a huge issue and it's already cost me 8 hours trying to fix it. Microsoft you cost me $1,600. How many tens of thousands of dollars in lost productivity have you cost others.

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