I am happy to announce that all my Apple products seem to be working properly again. I've done a few software updates, addressed my font book problem, updated my iPhone apps, contacts, iTunes, and organized all my files on external hard drives. I think I just had too much going on.

A warning to not so savvy design people, don't load all your fonts. I have a ton of fonts due to the different projects I've worked on. I started to update my InDesign portfolio file, but didn't have some old Helly Hansen or my own G Brand fonts activated. So I needed to re-link all the paths for imagery and re-activate the fonts. I used to use Extensis Suitcase, where you can have tons of different fonts for your typography needs, which allows the user to turn them off and on when you need them. Well, with my new MacBook Pro, I didn't have that software, so I just loaded all my fonts into the font book. It's slowed everything down, as I had thousands of fonts loading every time I opened an application.

The hard part is you can't just go back to a default setting, you have to delete font folders one by one. Yeah, slightly time consuming after loading a few thousand different types of fonts. Don't make the same mistake I did.

Anyway, now I'm all happy with my MacBook Pro and my whole Apple family of tech toys. I'm once again drinking from the Apple cool-aide.