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From: jrk@information-systems.east-anglia.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway CMP RA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Finder memory problems
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Date: 26 Nov 90 15:24:39 GMT
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I recently posted a query about why I could often not run a program, due
to insufficient memory, even when "About the Finder" appeared to show
that the Largest Unused Block was 100 or 200K larger than required.  I
didn't get a solution to that problem, but now I have what looks like a
similar one: In certain circumstances, I can't copy or duplicate any
files because "Ran out of Finder memory during copy.  Please drag the
items in two groups".  Even if I'm only copying one item, and that only
a few K in size.  This is in spite of the fact that "About the Finder"
shows plenty of space in the Finder's partition (nearly half free out of
a partition size of 300k), and a Largest Unused Block of about 150k.
Quitting an application, releasing 400K, lets copying go ahead.  There
is also free space in the System partition (about 10% out of 1200k).

The only other hint I can give is that this sort of thing seems to
happen more often if I have printed something since booting.  In fact,
I suspect that it has never happened before having printed anything.
But this may just be coincidence.  I haven't been able to reliably
reproduce the behaviour.  Is it possible that PrintMonitor, or something
else, is leaving unrelocatable blocks lying around in what should be
free space?

Version numbers, as reported by MacEnvy:
	System 6.0.5, Finder B1-6.1.5, MultiFinder 6.1b9, Mac IIfx.

And the first time I tried to open the Control Panel to use MacEnvy,
I just got a beep - not enough memory to run DA Handler.

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Richard Kennaway          SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
Internet:  jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk		uucp:  ...mcsun!ukc!uea-sys!jrk