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From: lrm3@ellis.uchicago.edu (Lawrence Reed Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Rebuild of Desktop
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Date: 14 Nov 90 07:35:49 GMT
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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.

What you need to do is increase the memory partition of the finder.  Go into
the system folder and do "Get Info" on the Finder file.  Change the default
size (160K, if memory serves) to something like 200 to 300K (depending on how
much memory you can spare, and how big a desktop file you need to work with,
etc). Reboot and everything should work now.

Lawrence Miller