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From: dhoyt@vw.acs.umn.edu
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Subject: Re: HELP... w/ the Finder in opening folder
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Date: 14 Aug 90 16:35:23 GMT
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In article <12515@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt7601b@prism.gatech.EDU (TSUNG,FU-LIN) writes...
> 
>   One person in our group generated a folder containing more than few 
>hundred files in it.  When we try to open the folder, the mac says 
>the folder/disk couldn't be opened (finder out of memory).   

  You are running out of finder memory.  You can do two things
        1) Reboot the machine without multifinder and clean up
        2) Increase Finder's partition size to something bigger (I think I use
           something like 320) and reboot the system.

david paul hoyt | dhoyt@vx.acs.umn.edu | dhoyt@umnacvx.bitnet