incorrect number of fonts in collection shown

[germ]

Mac OS ventura 13.7.1
fontbase 2.21.0

to reproduce:

1. create empty collection
2. drag font from desktop into black collection
3. result: collection shows “1” as expected
4. click on collection, right-click font name and choose “delete from disk”
5. result: empty collection, still displays number of fonts in collection as “1” (see screenshot)
   
   

[yuriy]

Hello @germ, thank you for your post and welcome to the forum
And a separate thank you for adding the step by step the process
This is by design. If you re-add the same font, you will notice that it will appear in this collection. Collections remember fonts added to them even if the fonts are removed from FontBase, it case it happens by accident or users want to re-add these fonts at some point in the future. This eliminates the need to categorise them again.

Thank you again,

[PB-CCC]

I made a bug report about this bug already here:

References are not deleted from collection when fonts are deleted from disk

In FontBase v2.21.0, when fonts in a collection are deleted (context menu > delete from disk), the font reference is not deleted from the collection. The font will not be visible in the collection anymore, but the font counter of the collection does not change. At least in time, collection information is not accurate.

I also pointed out: If a design decision is based on the case of an exception (user mistakenly deletes font from collection), still the number of fonts FontBase shows is wrong after deleting a font from a collection. And this should be corrected.

As a followup question for the majority who do not delete fonts from a collection mistakenly: how does the design of Fontbase accommodate to show the correct number of fonts in a collection? Is there maybe some user-setting, or (context) menu item?

[yuriy]

Hello @PB-CCC, thank you for your reply
@germ I suggest we move the discussion to @PB-CCC’s original post for easier topic tracking on the forum.

Closing this one,
Thank you again,