Hello @be_angus, thank you for the post, welcome to the forum and sorry to hear you’re having these issues, will try to help.
Please, before trying anything of the below, read through it a few times and don’t proceed until you’re aware of the potential data loss. We’d like to avoid that as much as possible.
If you have further questions or need clarifications - please don’t hesitate to ask before doing anything.
Your FontBase data (font data, collections, activation status etc) are located at
~/Library/Application Support/FontBase/IndexedDB
Just in case, make a copy of this folder before making any further manipulations to save all the data you’ve been gathering and organising for so long.
Do you happen to remember where your FontBase root folder is located?
As a possible fix, after you’ve copied the above IndexedDB folder, you could try removing it (but keeping a copy someplace else!), then restarting the computer just in case and then restarting FontBase. It should launch as if freshly installed. Then, in case you had a custom root folder location, pick that path as your root folder path. If you were using the default root folder path - no need to change anything.
This will reset the activation status of your fonts - FontBase won’t remember which ones were active last time you launched. Also, the collections will go missing. But the folder structure should stay intact.
Hope this helps,
Yuriy
FontBase Dev Team
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