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From: pharr-matthew@cs.yale.edu (Matthew Pharr)
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Subject: Re: 7.0B1 question Finder memory size & Syquests
Keywords: Finder 7.0B1 Syquests Memory Copying
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Date: 4 Dec 90 17:29:25 GMT
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In article <33819@athertn.Atherton.COM> dlw@Atherton.COM (David Williams) writes:
>A question about System 7.0B1 concerning memory allocated to the finder...
>
>Using the current 6.x series system one may increase the amount of
>memory allocated
>to the finder via Get Info. This is nice as I've noticed that without a 
>healthy amount of memory copying many files (ie +300) at a time or one
>large file to a syquest cartridge will fail. The system gives a disk
>write (cancel continue) error.
>
>From what I've seen of 7.0B1 System the Finder's memory does not seem to
>be changeable. If you do a get info on it you can't change its allocation as
>it does not even show one.
>So whats the scoop? How does one give the Finder more memory under 7.0?


If i remember correctly, 7.0 dynamically allocates memory to applications
as they need it, so thus the get info doesn't have anything of that sort
to change.

matt