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From: narco@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (John Wichers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: updating the desktop for 1 minute
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Date: 11 Sep 89 05:45:21 GMT
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In article <1590@draken.nada.kth.se> h+@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
>Also, you'll want to restart your machine without any INITs or MultiFinder
>or MacsBug / TMON / The Debugger / whatever debugger you prefer...
>(The INIT cdev is good - I'll be sending that post card, I think...)
>if you're low on memory (< 4 Meg) since I can't rebuild the desktop on
>my 40 meg HD in a 2 Meg SEx unless I start with the barest minimum of system.
>
>Why does the re-build take that much memory ? 5 % of the entire disk just
>to rebuild the desktop seem like pretty much to me...

This seems pretty strange to me. I have no problems whatsoever rebuilding
the desktop of my 60 meg drive on a plus with 2 1/2 megs. This is with
system 6.0.2 with multifinder and more inits than necessary (about 25 or
so). One thing that I did have to do is go to the Get Info box for the
finder and allocate more memory for it, but other than that I had no problems
(I think I set the memory at 600k-I didn't care what the minimum was, I just
wanted to get it done). This was with a desktop that was probably >200k at
that point.

narco

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