How bypass "Font is already installed" message?

[Guest Cirene]

I have over 1000 fonts that I've backed up. (I had to reformat my drive.)

 

Now I try to copy/paste the fonts into the c:\windows\fonts directory.

 

For most of them I get the message:

The Xxxx font is already installed. To install a new version, first remove

the old version.

 

Is there a way to paste the fonts and bypass this message? Or is there a

better way to restore all my fonts?

 

Thanks!

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: How bypass "Font is already installed" message?

 

If a given font is already installed, why would you want or need to

reinstall it?

 

For other fonts, see

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/truetypeinstallXP.mspx

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Cirene wrote:

> I have over 1000 fonts that I've backed up. (I had to reformat my drive.)

>

> Now I try to copy/paste the fonts into the c:\windows\fonts directory.

>

> For most of them I get the message:

> The Xxxx font is already installed. To install a new version, first

> remove

> the old version.

>

> Is there a way to paste the fonts and bypass this message? Or is there a

> better way to restore all my fonts?

>

> Thanks!

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: How bypass "Font is already installed" message?

 

Cirene <cirene@nowhere.com> wrote:

> I have over 1000 fonts that I've backed up. (I had to reformat my

> drive.)

> Now I try to copy/paste the fonts into the c:\windows\fonts directory.

>

> For most of them I get the message:

> The Xxxx font is already installed. To install a new version, first

> remove the old version.

>

> Is there a way to paste the fonts and bypass this message? Or is

> there a better way to restore all my fonts?

>

> Thanks!

 

It will let you bypass them, one at a time. I don't know of any way to

automate it.

[Guest Big_Al]

Re: How bypass "Font is already installed" message?

 

Cirene wrote:

> I have over 1000 fonts that I've backed up. (I had to reformat my drive.)

>

> Now I try to copy/paste the fonts into the c:\windows\fonts directory.

>

> For most of them I get the message:

> The Xxxx font is already installed. To install a new version, first remove

> the old version.

>

> Is there a way to paste the fonts and bypass this message? Or is there a

> better way to restore all my fonts?

>

> Thanks!

>

>

 

Just an idea, what you should do, I know its a bit of work, but go down

all the fonts installed from initial load and remove them from your

backup.

Thus effectively you are only backing up the ones you added, not the

ones that come with XP install.

 

I too have some huge list but I've trimmed mine.

I did it one day after a fresh load with a command line

 

cd \windows\fonts

for %a in (*.ttf) do del \backup\%a

 

These two lines just delete all the ttf files in the fonts folder from

my backup. Of course I get the impression you've already tainted the

installation so you can't now.

[Guest John McGaw]

Re: How bypass "Font is already installed" message?

 

Cirene wrote:

> I have over 1000 fonts that I've backed up. (I had to reformat my drive.)

>

> Now I try to copy/paste the fonts into the c:\windows\fonts directory.

>

> For most of them I get the message:

> The Xxxx font is already installed. To install a new version, first remove

> the old version.

>

> Is there a way to paste the fonts and bypass this message? Or is there a

> better way to restore all my fonts?

>

> Thanks!

>

>

 

Are you really trying to copy/paste the files? That might be the problem

right there. If you go into control panel -> fonts do you see a number of

fonts that the system "thinks" are installed? If so and they .ttf files are

not really present in the c:\windows\fonts directory you will need to

re-educate the system by uninstalling them and then when they are gone in

control panel you can try re-installing them. Probably best to start with a

single font to verify but I think this procedure should work.