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From: MAC.ROMOS@applelink.apple.com (Ian Hendry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problems with file systems with more than 2000 Files
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Date: 14 Jul 89 00:01:52 GMT
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In article <1285@draken.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) 
writes:
> >Can anybody tell me, whether the previous problems with the finder is 
indeed
> >existing, and whether it is related with the break down of our
> >filesystem?
> 
> A problem that exists and will exist for the forseeable future is the
> problem with the Desktop file. It is a resource file, and as such cannot
> have more than 32767 resources in it. Now, some (generically typed
> applications with the "Standard application" icon and without file 
comments)
> add NO resources to the Desktop, while others may well add 20 resources,
> or more. There are two ways to avoid this, either by partitioning the
> disk or by modifying the Finder/Desktop structure (a task for the Apple
> Operating Systems Development Team) but neither may be appropriate for
> Your needs. (This is described in a TechNote, my TechNotes were updated
> in April or May, I think.)

Actually the above is not quite right, but there is a resource manager 
limit to the desktop file.  Appleshare has an INIT called the DeskTop
Manager which does not use the desktop file.  At the developers
conference Apple said they planned to include the DeskTop  Manager
functinality  in system 7.0.  The DeskTop Manager does not use the 
desktop file and it does not have a 2000 file limit so the "forseeable 
future" is until 7.0 ships.

Ian Hendry
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