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OT – Attack of the As? Mail is showing As instead of E-mail content?
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A virus wouldn’t bother messing with character encodings unless there was a specific vulnerability in them.
The font cache is your best bet.
You did do a complete OS restart after cleaning out the cache also, right? That’s necessary.
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Hi:
I know it is probably not a virus but so far, nobody on four boards and the Apple Forum has ever heard of this happening. Weird.
For maintenance, I run Mac Janitor once a week, repair permissions once a week and do a full backup to two separate drives once a week using SuperDuper.
I guess I could go back to one of the backups I did over the weekend but yeesh, that will take about 5 hours to restore and it may develop again
Thanks,
Dan
A Producer Who Is Also A DP? Yep, that’s Me.
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Couldn’t delete the Mail prefs because Mail keeps all of your mailboxes folders (I have about fifty of them) and e-mails within the Mail.plist file. Some apps do this and some don’t. Unfortunately for me, Mail does.
Dan
A Producer Who Is Also A DP? Yep, that’s Me.
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If it helps, here is what a good majority of my e-mails have looked like for the past couple of days. https://gallery.me.com/blfilms/100139
Thanks,
Dan
A Producer Who Is Also A DP? Yep, that’s Me.
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BJ:
You get the Gold Star for the day and free Apple Juice at recess. First I downloaded Font Nuke on the advice of another board, the person had the same idea, corrupted font cache. But I ran Font Nuke twice and it didn’t seem to do anything.
Then I downloaded OnyX as you suggested, ran it (all of the operations pretty much) and included the delete font cache. That seemed to fix things, at least so far, all of those A filled e-mails now display correctly. Safari is displaying correctly. But FireFox is still giving me huge areas of white blank space all over the same https://www.nytimes.com page that Safari displays perfectly, so that must be a FireFox issue, not a font issue?
Thank you for your advice, I very much appreciate it. I am on an editing deadline, not a good time for my laptop to melt down with font issues.
Thank you and have a good night.
Dan
A Producer Who Is Also A DP? Yep, that’s Me.
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Glad to be of help, you became my hero after you did that microphone comparison a few years ago, it saved me a lot of time!
Firefox has had its share of problems lately, so make sure you have the latest 3.6.12 version.
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Hi:
Glad the article was helpful.
Yes, I am running 3.6.12, it is just not liking the NY Times site anymore, everything else looks fine, even other articles on other pages of the same site, it is just the main page displays with huge gaps between sections and all of the small type stuff on the right hand side is just not there in FireFox.
Cheers,
Dan
A Producer Who Is Also A DP? Yep, that’s Me.
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That’s is odd. I’d agree with the Font Cache clearing.
I moved away from Mail some time ago as it was doing a pretty bad job of keeping IMAP accounts in sync and managing more than two accounts with a decent amount of emails.
I’ve switched to Postbox which is built on the Mozilla platform. I like it a lot. It keeps the ever growing mountains of emails organized and taggable for easy future findings. It has also done very well with my IMAP accounts. It’s what I thought Mail should be.
Thought I’d throw it out there.
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Firefox has an extension that allows you to essentially run other browsers right inside a tab based on URLs of specific sites. I know at one time I had it configured to run Internet Explorer for one particularly pesky site and it worked like a charm. Perhaps you could find it and tell it to use Safari to render nytimes.com.
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That is some good advice Jeremy, it is just a matter of laziness on my part in transferring everything over, configuring new accounts, etc.
I will check that out.
Dan
A Producer Who Is Also A DP? Yep, that’s Me.
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