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From: ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Help on "busy" applications
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Date: 24 Oct 90 02:32:00 GMT
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/* Written  7:54 pm  Oct 22, 1990 by p3ay@vax5.cit.cornell.edu in uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac.misc */
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Help -- I am having an INIT/system problem that is trashing applications.
It happens only irregularly (read: I haven't had the chance to track down the
real problem) but it manages to make an application permanently "busy." i.e.
when I try to relaunch the application I get a "The file "Blah" could not be
opened/printed (-39)" alert.  This happens most often to QUED/M and Word.
[stuff deleted]
2)  Is there any way to fix the "busy" application?
     
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Mind you, I haven't tried these, but something like this might do it:
Duplicate the application and run the copy
Rebuild the desktop file.
Restart.

If the system is screwed up and the application is still good, the first one
would probably be the easiest.

Mark Lanett