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Backing up your fonts

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Jeff
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There are two simple ways you can back up fonts from your libraries: collecting and archiving.

Collecting select fonts

The Collect Fonts feature was originally designed to allow you to easily gather fonts to deliver to a service bureau with your document. It still works perfectly for that purpose. It is also convenient if you want to quickly make sure you have a copy of critical fonts.

There are two ways to collect fonts:

  • Drag selected fonts from the Connect Fonts desktop app to a location on your computer (such as the desktop).

  • Select fonts and choose File > Collect Fonts for Output.

Archiving the Font Vault

Archiving your Font Vault ensures that all of your font data is saved and can easily be restored.

To archive your Font Vault:

  1. Choose File > Font Vault Archive > Archive.

  2. The Connect Fonts desktop app will need to stop the Type Core in order to archive your Font Vault. To proceed, click Archive.

  3. Enter a name for the archive and choose the destination where it will be saved, then clickSave.

The Font Vault will be copied to a compressed file, then the desktop app will restart.

To restore a previously-archived Font Vault:

  1. Choose File > Font Vault Archive > Restore.

  2. The Connect Fonts desktop app will need to stop the Type Core to restore your Font Vault. To proceed, click Restore.

  3. Navigate to the archive that you want to restore, select it, and click Open.

The Desktop app will restore the Font Vault and restart.

IMPORTANT: Restoring a Font Vault will overwrite your current Font Vault, including any sets that you have created.

 

Notes about font archives

  • All of your libraries except system libraries and the Adobe Fonts library are archived. This includes Team, Personal, and the Google Fonts library.

    To remove the Google Fonts library before creating an archive, select it, then chooseEdit > Delete Library.

  • Fonts added in place are restored to the folder Connect Fonts Restore (located in the user’s Documents folder).

  • The archive keeps information about tracked documents but does not keep copies of them. If you move your archived Vault to a new system, you should also move the tracked documents. See Moving a tracked file for information about moving tracked documents.

  • Font Vault archives are not cross-platform. An archive created with the Connect Fonts desktop app for Mac can only be restored on a Mac, and an archive created with the Connect Fonts desktop app for Windows can only be restored on a Windows PC.

  • To extract the contents of a Font Vault archive, change the file extension to .ZIP and use the OS feature or an unZIPping utility to extract the files.

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