Font Agent Pro 7 takes forever to activate fonts

[Mr. Met]

Used to love FAP but now it takes minutes to activate fonts. One family can take up to a minute. A set with multiple families can take 2-5 minutes to activate and the entire computer is unusable while this is happening. I ran activity monitor and FAP took 67% of CPU to activate 20 fonts. I thought I would ask here if there is something I'm not doing or doing wrong before. I'm floored that when I activate a family not only doesn't the entire family not activate instantly like it used to, but I get a crawl at the top right of my screen: Helv Regular is now open, Helv Italic is now open, on and on and on until the entire family is activated.

[cbishop01]

This would be better asked to Font agent Forum.  but you can Turn off autoactivate.  You can also have your computer start up earlier thats what we do at work. 

[BobLevine]

If you can't get anywhere with the FAP folks, have a look at Suitcase Fusion 7.

[cbishop01]

thats what i use on my windows PC.  I like that program more actually.

[BobLevine]

And it allows two installs including Mac and/or Windows. The syncing feature is fabulous.

[flaming1]

Best to try and troubleshoot your problem with the folks at FAP rather than potentially jumping out of the frying pan into the fire by switching to another product. I found the FAP support guys to be excellent and very quick and willing to help troubleshoot.

In my experience FAP has always been fast running, clean and simple to use, Suitcase for me has always been a slow buggy, crashy product... and still is in it's most current version.

We use Suitcase every day at work and it is always a relief to go to my evening job and use FAP

[Mr. Met · Accepted solution]

Thanks everyone. Contacted FAP directly. Turns out part of the problem was I had a brain freeze. When I updated to FAP7, I forgot that I have to install CC plug-ins separately. I also turned off auto-activate on restart which was a biggie. I would sometimes have to wait 15 minutes for all the fonts to reactivate on start. And, lastly, there was an apple system pref that turned off the scroll at top right telling what font just activated.