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From: dawyd@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (David Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Application busy or missing?
Message-ID: <477@gargoyle.uchicago.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 89 03:46:29 GMT
References: <12785@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: dawyd@gargoyle.uchicago.edu.UUCP (David Walton)
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In article <12785@boulder.Colorado.EDU> kessler@schof.colorado.edu (Andrew Kessler) writes:
>On some Mac's double clicking on a file when the creator program is already
>running gives the error 'Application busy or missing', instead of switching
>to the program and loading the file. So now you have to switch to the program
>and open the file using the open command. 
>
>Does anyone know what causes this? It seems to work fine with some system
>configurations and not at all on others. I haven't been able to figure out
>the exact cause. 
>
>Andy Kessler

On earlier versions of Finder/MF, one would get the message "Some APPL
documents could not be opened printed.  Please choose Open from within
the application."  I'm not sure what version started allowing you to
open from the finder when the application was already running, but I
think it's System 6.0.2.

My guess is that the error you mention is a variant of the above.
(You must admit that Application Busy would make sense here.)



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