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From: cloos@acsu.buffalo.edu (James H. Cloos)
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Subject: wrt rebuilding the desktop
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Date: 18 Oct 90 01:04:17 GMT
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Hello,

I've got a 84 meg hd with a few partitions on it.  It has approx 40 to
60 megs used between the 7 or 8 partitions.  The desktop files had
become trashed, so I just removed them (using DiskTop) and was going
to let FInder rebuild them.  I gave up after approx 45 minutes.  Is
this an unreasonable length of time to wait on a SE with system
release 6.0.4 (ie, whatever version of finder comes w/ that, 6.1.4 or
something like that, ja?) and 1 meg ram? (Running off of the boot vol
on said hd.)  Would it be faster if I started it up from a floppy?
Also, am I correct in assuming that for hard partitions (via
SilverLining) the Desktop files for each volume contain references
only to the files on that volume?  (These Desktops were getting BIG!)

Please mail responses as I've not had time lately to wade thru
c.s.mac.* in addition to everything else to do in a day [SIGH]...

-JimC
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