Add Fonts

[avolochenko]

is it possible to add support for backing up user fonts?
~/Library/Fonts/

reference:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2435

[lra]

That's an awesome idea, I tried and sadly it appears that Font Book and the whole OS X font system does not support a linked folder =(

[lra]

If you want to try for yourself and find a way to make it work:

cd
chmod -N Library/Fonts
mv Library/Fonts TestingFonts
ln -s ~/TestingFonts Library/Fonts

And open Font Book, your user fonts are gone.

To rollback:

cd
rm Library/Fonts
mv TestingFonts Library/Fonts

But I'm missing something, as my font are not back in Font Book.

Can someone have more info ?

[lra]

Logout/login to bring back the font and you move back the folder into place, but I still can't get the fonts in Font Book and the folder is linked to mackup's

[zenwheel]

What about using hard links?

[lra]

@zenwheel this is a good idea.
Tried some stuff, hard link for folders are internally supported on HFS+, but not available command line (man ln)

If I use the system call, I can hard link a folder to dropbox, but it does not detect the changes later.

But apparently it does if I copy the folder to Dropbox 1st, and hardlink it outside later.

It might work, Im not sure yet, it might need some more work.

[avolochenko]

Thanks for the update, yeah i've seen issues with sys links in other places as well. oh well, not a biggie if it cant be done for Fonts. Much appreciate!

[JawsomeJason]

Has anyone seen if this is doable with Mavericks?

[ipmcc]

Or what about just rsyncing the files rather than symlinking?

[vitorgalvao]

I’ve discussed this with @lra on twitter, briefly. For those of you that only want to sync font files that can be freely distributed, maybe give homebrew-cask a look; the fonts tap in particular. It may not sync them, but will give you a way to install them quickly.

Functionality to copy instead of linking in mackup is being discussed anyway, so in theory that could later be applied to this case.

[lra]

Depends on #613 1st