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From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The Beauty of HFS
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.184558.2874@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 31 Jan 91 05:45:57 GMT
References: <1CE00001.2uro9z@tbomb.ice.com>
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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In article <1CE00001.2uro9z@tbomb.ice.com>, time@tbomb.ice.com (Tim Endres)
claims cases where a Mac was "disabled because it could not seem to deal
with the enormous number of files in a directory".

Are you sure this wasn't a problem with the well-known limitations on
the resource-based Desktop database? If so, switching to Desktop Manager
should fix the problem.

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