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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Finder out of memory?
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Date: 20 Sep 90 12:41:53 GMT
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In-reply-to: biswa@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Biswa Ghosh)

In article <38751@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, biswa@janus (Biswa Ghosh) writes:
>When I try to rebuild the desktop (on SE30, 6.0.4, 5 megs), I get
>a message after a while, 'unable to complete rebuilding desktop,
>finder out of memory.' The exact wording may be slightly different.

This also happens when copying large numbers of files under
Multifinder.  The answer is to allocate more memory to the Finder,
though it somehow seems insane that this process can only be
accomplished by moving the mouse, clicking, typing numbers into a
little window, and rebooting.

Does anyone know, offhand, whether or not this idiocy has been removed
from System 7?

(By the way, someone at Apple must have a sense of humor, since the
dialog box that appears to tell you that the Finder can't copy so many
files reminds me of the punch line to an old "Doctor Doctor" joke.
Like "Doctor, doctor!  It hurts when I move my arm like this."  "Well,
don't move your arm like that."

Apple's dialog says something like that...)

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