Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!csc.anu.oz.au!csc3.anu.oz.au!anucsd!pollux!drew From: drew@pollux.anu.oz.au (Drew Corrigan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Rebuild of Desktop Message-ID: Date: 13 Nov 90 22:22:19 GMT References: <21739@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Sender: news@anucsd.anu.oz.au (USENET News software) Organization: ANU Department of Computer Science Lines: 22 mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu (Don McGregor) writes: > I tried to rebuild by desktop today, and got an error..."The desktop > could not be completely rebuilt (finder out of memory)". It cleans > it out OK under MonoFinder, but not under MultiFinder. The desktop > is about 94K, and it's a 40 MB HD with about 5 MB free. I've got > 5 MB of memory and yanked all the inits. It's an SE/30. > Suggestions? I don't have an answer but would like to add that a friend asked me about a similar thing the other day. He too, received the "Finder out of memory" message when attempting to rebuild the desktop. I don't recall whether he was running MultiFinder or not. He also had an SE/30 with 5Mb of memory. Anyone in the know able to explain what is the significance of this "out of memory" message? Drew. --- Drew Corrigan (drew@anucsd.anu.oz.au) Department of Computer Science, Australian National University