Entourage wants to use fonts on a different volume

[dburnham]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: imap

What the heck is going on with this crazy pop-up dialog that is constantly telling me that Entourage wants my permission to allow it to use a font that exists on a remote device connected to my computer?

First of all, there is no font on my backup device that is not also resident on my computer's primary hard drive.

Second, I have read a number of posts that discuss this issue but offer lame guesses and hunches as to what is involved. I would rather hear something definitive from Microsoft before I waste my time with 3rd party products that delete font caches, the Font Book applications, preferences, or any of the other voodoo ideas written by people who just don't have the answer but are trying to be helpful.

Something must be triggering this dialog box to appear. What is it?

 

[PeterinDenver]

What the heck is going on with this crazy pop-up dialog that is constantly telling me that Entourage wants my permission to allow it to use a font that exists on a remote device connected to my computer?

First of all, there is no font on my backup device that is not also resident on my computer's primary hard drive.

Second, I have read a number of posts that discuss this issue but offer lame guesses and hunches as to what is involved. I would rather hear something definitive from Microsoft before I waste my time with 3rd party products that delete font caches, the Font Book applications, preferences, or any of the other voodoo ideas written by people who just don't have the answer but are trying to be helpful.

Something must be triggering this dialog box to appear. What is it?

Have you tried to "verify" your fonts. After I read your post I launched FontBook under Applications, selected my entire font list and ran from File menu <<Verify Fonts>>. Although it reported "No serious problems it found" quite a few reported minor problems and to proceed with caution. More than a few were Microsoft installed fonts like Verdana.
I would start here.

 

[Diane Ross]

What the heck is going on with this crazy pop-up dialog that is constantly
telling me that Entourage wants my permission to allow it to use a font that
exists on a remote device connected to my computer?

Did this just start? Is it possible you are running Entourage from the wrong
drive? Try disconnecting the other drives and make sure Entourage is on the
boot drive and see if the problems go away.

I've had some strange things happen since I updated to 10.5.8 launching
files from backup drives. I had to re-install the combo and now things are
normal again. It also reset many preferences for me, my login items were all
deleted and even my sidebar was reset to the default. Strange stuff.