Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!claris!jazzman From: jazzman@claris.com (Sydney R. Polk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: MultiFinder hates DAs? Message-ID: <11202@claris.com> Date: 21 Aug 90 18:13:15 GMT References: <9174@arctic.nprdc.arpa> Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA Lines: 35 From article <9174@arctic.nprdc.arpa>, by serafine@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Serafine): > In article <2107@ux.acs.umn.edu> clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) writes: >>In article <5670004@hpfcdq.HP.COM> r_ellison@hpfcdq.HP.COM (Bob Ellison) writes: >>>I just got my Mac SE/30's memory upgraded to 5 Meg, and I wanted to start >>>using MultiFinder. MultiFinder comes up fine, but I can't open any desk >>>accessories under it; I get a beep and that's it. Anyone have any ideas as >> >>Usually this problem is easy to solve. Check your System Folder, and make sure >>that "DA Handler" and "Backgrounder" are in there. "DA Handler" acts as a sort >>of "application" taht contains all DAs under Multifinder. If you try to open a >>DA without it present, the Mac will just beep since it is unable to launch the >>DA "shell." >> >> >> >>clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu AOL:Crowbone > > I have received many helpful hints from this net which have made my job here > easier. Now I would like to take this opportunity to return the favor: > > Using an SE/20 with 4meg. running under 6.0.2, and with backgrounder but not > DA handler in the Systems folder, I too get the beep when attempting to select > a DA under Multifinder. But I've found that if I hold down the option key just > before & during the selection of the desired DA, it works fine, just like in > the Finder. I hope that this will work as well for you, too. What this does is runs the desk accesories in the currently running application's heap. I personally don't like clogging my other appliations memory with DAs, so the disk space and memory for the DAHandler I consider worth it. -- Syd Polk | Wherever you go, there you are. jazzman@claris.com | Let the music be your light. GO 'STROS! | These opinions are mine. Any resemblence to other GO RICE! | opinions, real or fictitious, is purely coincidence.