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From: francis@daisy.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
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Subject: Re: Rebuild of Desktop
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.230657.19384@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 90 23:06:57 GMT
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In article <1990Nov14.073549.660@midway.uchicago.edu> lrm3@ellis.uchicago.edu (Lawrence Reed Miller) writes:
>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.

What Apple needs to do is set up Finder to use the temporary-memory calls
from MF when rebuilding, the way it does when copying.


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