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!

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/...installXP.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!

Cirene <(E-Mail Removed)> 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.

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.

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.