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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: updating the desktop for 1 minute
Message-ID: <1601@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 11 Sep 89 07:14:57 GMT
References: <1989Sep9.073536.3065@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> <15497@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <1590@draken.nada.kth.se> <15515@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <1590@draken.nada.kth.se> h+@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:

>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...

In article <15515@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> narco@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (John Wichers) writes:
>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

OK, I should have said: Startup w/o MultiFinder, since then the Finder has
all of the memory to play with :-) (This is easily achieved through starting
up and depressing the command-key after the INITS have loaded. Did you know
that if you use "normal" finder, if you quit an application and depress
option-command, you'll rebuild the desktop. Quite natural, when you think
about it :-)

Happy Hacking
-- 
Don't believe a word I say, I always lie.