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From: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Re: ResEdit
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Date: 13 Nov 90 12:36:57 GMT
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In article <1990Nov13.030220.25624@portia.Stanford.EDU>, ralphm@elaine27.stanford.edu (Ralph Melton) writes:
> In article <85704@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <elk@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
> ResEdit 2.0b2 breaks with a bus error every time I attempt to edit a
> 'MENU' resource.  Turning off all inits doesn't help the problem.  This
> disappoints me greatly, because I got to play with an earlier version
> (2.0d1, I believe; I've since trashed it) and I rejoiced in the menu
> editor there, which is vastly superior to 1.2's menu template.  Has
> anyone else seen this problem?  Has anybody seen this problem and
> solved it?  I don't like having to go back to ResEdit 1.2 every time
> I need to change a menu.

Happened to me as well.

Create a NEW folder, copy all your system files into it, trash the old
System Folder and bless the new one.

That fixed it for me.

I haven't the foggiest idea why.
-- 
Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
		nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk    <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick
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