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FontNuke is a utility application that removes corrupt or troublesome font cache files. I created this application as a tool for my personal use at the office, and has become very useful for me. FontNuke, a free font cache cleaner for Mac OS X 10.4, followed by a reboot, cleared the problem up and returned Mail to a human-speaking application.

A FREE tool for removing font cache files on Mac OS X Mac OS X. Fonts. Font Caches. ERRR! Having the aforementioned as part of my daily grind, enough is enough and frustration sets in! So I made a tool to make my life easier.
Solution? FontNuke.

Font Nuke Mac Os

FontNuke is a free utility application for Mac OS X 10.4.x+ (Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra) that removes corrupt and troublesome font cache files. I created this application as a tool for my personal use at the office, and has become very useful for me. To grant individual non-admin users the ability to remove font cache files, without my involvement--is HUGE! Not to mention intelligent application quitting, plus a GUARANTEED reboot, makes my life easier. FontNuke removes system font caches (Mac OS X font cache files), Adobe font caches (*.lst), Microsoft Office font caches, and now also (as of version 1.1.9) ALL versions of QuarkXPress font cache files.
I formerly had shell scripts installed on my clients, and would log in via SSH, then execute my cache removal script each and every time the clients had a font issue. That gets old fast, so rather than continue to work that way, I assembled FontNuke.
I made this application for myself, and I'm just posting it here to share. On top of the fact I like free things, so hey...why not keep it free! If FontNuke is useful to anyone else, please--help yourself. I take no responsibility for any products of misuse.
FontNuke has been an indispensable tool for me. Especially as a sysadmin with non-admin users experiencing font cache issues. Empowering users with tools to remain productive is what I'm all about.
I have recently added an option which purges spotlight indexes on startup volume from /.Spotlight-V100. This has been added due to some intermittent unresponsiveness when searching network volumes for some of my MCX clients.
NOTE: Please use this feature (Reset Spotlight) with caution. This feature will purge all Spotlight indexes without a forced rebuild. This is recommended ONLY if you understand fully the contents of /.Spotlight-V100. Volume re-indexing may take minutes to several hours.
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System Requirements

• Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.x - macOS Sierra 10.12.x

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Release Notes

1.2.11 (11-16-2016)

• Improved support for macOS Sierra systems with System Integrity Protection (SIP) enabled.

Release Notes History

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To Do

• Explore an integrated runtime during Login/Logout.
• Improve dynamic font cache locating to better gather font cache files on systems with multiple versions of QuarkXPress 6/7/8 and/or QuarkXPress Passport. Currently limited to standard installations of QuarkXPress 6/7.(added full QXP support in v1.1.9)
• Improve performance and responsiveness when a large quantity of font cache files are present on the system.(significant improvements again in v1.1.9)
• Improve efficiency of font cache removal when using Admin-Free mode. Current security mechanism is sluggish when a large quantity of font cache files are present on a system.

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FontNuke Editor's Review

FontNuke is a system utility which can fix the font cache issues.
The application can remove either system font caches, or the application specific caches. It has the support for Adobe font caches, Microsoft Office or QuarkXPress.
The application supports an interesting operating mode which allows a non-admin user to clear the cache. It needs some pre-configuration where you actually have to use the administrator credentials, but after that you can reset the font caches without the need of admin authentication.
The producer is very generous since there is another feature which you must use with care. You can use FontNuke to clean the Spotlight index from the startup disk volume.
FontNuke has also a feature which can quit all the opened applications in order not to interfere with the clearing action. After the operation has finished, a reboot is required. The applications reboots the system automatically, so all you need to do before using this application is to save all of your work.
Pluses: it allows you to easily clear the font caches, it has a non-admin working mode, it can clear the Spotlight index.
Drawbacks / flaws:
In conclusion: this is one of those 'must-have' tools especially when you have font-cache issues.
version reviewed: 1.0.7