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From: cnv77@bnr.ca (Glenn Henshaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Start-up delays
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Date: 19 Dec 90 19:39:54 GMT
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In article <2477@ac.dal.ca> ireland@ac.dal.ca writes:
>In article <1990Dec12.210454.4575@midway.uchicago.edu>, nwc1@quads.uchicago.edu (einsturzende neubaten) writes:
>> Speaking of the delay with a Plus and 4 Megs, My room mate's SE is also
>> having the same problem. He's got 2.5 Megs, and this is the only real
>> new thing that he's gotten. Running a 20M Apple internal, system 6.0.5
>> except for Multifinder 6.1b9, and it takes FOREVER for the mac to boot.
>> It wasn't doing this before!@!!##% SLOW!!!
>> 
>> Any, any ANY ideas? Killing INITs etc. doesn't matter.

  You might look for an extra System file in a folder on the top level.
If the Mac seems to hang doing nothing for a few minutes this might
be the problem. I found this by accident when upgrading a system
folder but wanting to keep an old copy around just in case.
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