"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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  2. Anonymous
    2019-01-18T08:29:15+00:00

    Any solution yet? I tried to copy the Fonts folder inside the Windows folder to a new folder using the CMD commands and all my old fonts (back when I was using Win7) showed up, there are around 350 of which Windows 10 only displays 80 in all my programs. Then I tried to copy the 350 fonts of this new folder to the Fonts folder inside Windows folder and this did nothing, everything seems to be the same. I had noticed that this only happens with fonts I had installed before upgrading to Windows 10 since the new fonts I download installs without any problem. Do you think if it's a good idea to delete Fonts folder inside Windows folder and then copy the folder with all the fonts I made before in Windows folder? Or it will crash my PC? 

    PS. Strangely enough, Settings app does show all the fonts... and I managed to reinstall some fonts by uninstalling them as you said before, but some fonts I had before came atomatically within Office and Adobe installations... Maybe it's time to go back to Win7...

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-02-11T14:03:29+00:00

    I found this issue with a lot of 1803 machines. 

    One of my clients had a script that autoinstalls fonts into the Fonts directory. They're installed per the question but do not appear especially in Adobe products. 

    What I had to do is as follows:

    1. Uninstall the font from the Windows 10 Font menu
    2. Then manually reinstall the front. 
    3. Then the font should appear in the Windows Fonts folder.

    There's two places to manage fonts now and they don't seem to talk to each other. 

    It's incredibly broken and hopefully there's a better solution

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-02-13T14:58:16+00:00

    Thanks for the solution, Sean. This worked a treat!

    I started experiencing this problem today, right after I've just spent two days doing a completely clean and updated installation of W10 Pro on my machine. Today is my first day using the machine for work again, and I'm utterly bemused to have experienced such a ridiculous issue. Especially considering that MS have been aware of it for over 6 months and have chosen to completely ignore it.

    MS Admins; I work in a creative industry and being able to quickly install and activate fonts, without having to delve into the command prompt every time, isn't even REMOTELY optional for me. When are you going to sort this out?

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-02-15T14:44:36+00:00

    same thing happened to me. i just logged off then back on.

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