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From: phaedrus@blake.acs.washington.edu (the Wanderer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: APPLE FILE EXCHANGE
Message-ID: <3976@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 10 Oct 89 17:34:23 GMT
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Reply-To: phaedrus@blake.acs.washington.edu (the Wanderer)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <25363.252FE519@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Whiz.Kid@f31.n343.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Whiz Kid) writes:
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>Hi.  I use a macintosh SE with two superdrives.  Everytime I try to run
>the Apple File Exchange program that came with my computer it crashes.  I 
>tested it on a friends PLUS and it worked fine.  Am I doing anything
>wrong.  Does the SE with superdrives lack the ability to run that
>program?
>thanx for any help.

     It's been my experience that Apple File Exchange is particularly
sensitive to what INITs and CDEVs you have installed.  My copy, for instance,
refuses to work with Suitcase II installed, and many other INITs seem to cause
odd behavior (as if the AFE user interface wasn't odd enough :) ).
     Your friend's Plus probably has fewer of these installed, or at least
different ones that don't cause problems.
     The best advice for using AFE is probably to turn off every INIT and CDEV
(programs like INIT Picker make this much easier), restart the system, run
AFE and do your file conversion, turn the INITs back on and restart again.
It's a bit of a pain, but I've never run into AFE crashes/misbehavior with
INITs off.
     (Please note that I only use AFE once every three months at best; I'm
sure more elegant ways around the problems exist, but I've never been irritated
enough to find them...)

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