Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!hanami.Eng.Sun.COM!landman From: landman@hanami.Eng.Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Rebuild of Desktop Summary: If it's out of memory, give it more memory! Message-ID: <3161@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 20 Nov 90 07:57:48 GMT References: <21739@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 24 >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)". In article drew@pollux.anu.oz.au (Drew Corrigan) writes: >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 used to get this message a lot too, whenever I tried to open a folder with 500 or 600 files in it. >Anyone in the know able to explain what is the significance of this "out >of memory" message? >> Suggestions? Well, why don't you do what I did, which is go into your system folder, select the finder, do command-i to open the get info box, and increase the amount of memory that the finder gets? -- Howard A. Landman landman@eng.sun.com -or- sun!landman