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From: neg@NRC.COM (Neal Goldsmith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Desktop Manager
Message-ID: <630@nrcvax.NRC.COM>
Date: 2 Nov 90 18:44:33 GMT
References: <10458@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: neg@nrcvax.UUCP (Neal Goldsmith)
Organization: Network Research Corp., Oxnard CA
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In article <10458@milton.u.washington.edu> phaedrus@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Phaedrus) writes:
>In article <1286@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk writes:
>>My question: what are all these disk optimisers and defragmenters going
>>to do when we're running Desktop Manager all the time, with its files
>>open all the time, under MultiFinder all the time?
>
>     All the disk optimizers I've seen don't work with DM running.  The only
>way around this I've found is to disable the Desktop Manager INIT, restart,
>optimize, and reenable the INIT.  (Hopefully, Apple will provide a more
>elegant solution for System 7.)

Norton Speed Disk works great! I use it with the DM all the time. Disk Doctor
also works. I checked with PNC before I tried it, they gave me the party line
about Apple not supporting it except with AppleShare, then said it will work.

I guess they're ready for 7.0.

The only problem I have is installing new versions on the system software.
I have to build a normal desktop, then install the system, then put the DM
back.

I can't handle using my machine without the Desktop Manager, I have over 2000
files on my main HD. Updates are just to slow otherwise. After 2500 or so
files you HAVE to use DM, the standard desktop system fails to work.




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