Re: Changing the font with which folders are labeled



Mark2149@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Dec 25, 11:47 am, Erik Richard Sørensen <NOS...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mark2...@xxxxxxx wrote:
For one folder (the desktop) the font with which the folders and files
are labeled has been changed to something that is almost unreadable.
All the other folders on the hard disk have labels for files and
folders in the standard Mac font which is easy to read. I did not make
the change; it just appeared one day. How can I change the font back
to the original, or at least something I can read?
Is this the correct group to submit this question? If not, I'll submit
it elsewhere. Thanks for the help.
Sorry, I forgot the basic information: I am using the latest iMac with
system 10.5.6. M.Schupack
You can do this using fx. 'TinkerTool 3.93' - a handy tool for many
hidden prefs settings. Open it and go to the pane 'Fonts'. here you can
change font settings for both windows, titles, dialog boxes etc.etc.

TinkerTool 3.93 (freeware)
Access hidden preferences settings.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11967

I did use TinkerTool to try to change the font of the folder label. It
did not work. Checking into the FAQ file that comes with the program,
it became clear why this is so. The FAQ points out that the font of
the finder, the dock and the menu bar cannot be changed. The inability
to change these is a legacy left over from the earliest MACs. The
workaround is to put all the files you want to access on the desktop
into one folder. The label on that folder will be hard to read, but
when you open it up all the files you want on a desktop are there
labeled with the standard MAC font. TinkerTool may still be useful for
other things.

Hm, - and you remembered to restart Finder and log out/in again? - I don't use it here on this machine - a MacPro - after having got a new large 28" monitor, but on my olde G4 i still use it on a quite smaller screen with both Tiger and Leopard. It works therre, but I can't select the font I wanna use - Charcoal, - but some other similar fonts with medium-bold thickness. What I've found is that it MUST be an Unicode font. - I don't know why it sometimes works on some machines and not on others...

Cheers, Erik Richard

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