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From: pas1@unhd.unh.edu (Paul A Simoneau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re : running out of finder memory.
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.201626.19003@unhd.unh.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 20:16:26 GMT
Sender: pas1@unhd.unh.edu (Paul A Simoneau)
Organization: University of New Hampshire
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-->In article <1991Mar4.001031.2587@bpdsun1.uucp> rmf@bpdsun1.uucp 
-->(Rob Finley) writes:
-->>While using Multifinder with 5Meg physical ram and system 6.0,
-->> I keep runninout of finder memory.
-->>
-->>How can I make it bigger?
-->>
-->
-->Open the System Folder.
-->Locate the file called Finder
-->Click once on the icon for Finder
-->Select Get Info from the File menu
-->Change the Application Memory allocation in the lower right corner
-->Close the Get Info window
-->Restart your Mac
-->
-->300K seems to work for hard drives up to 120MB.

Not quite.  You need to start up with a different system disk (one other
than your normal startup volume) so that you can make the above change.
Otherwise, the finder can not be changed because it is being used by the
volume to be changed.  

Hope this helped...

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Paul A. Simoneau
pas1@unhd.unh.edu
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH, USA
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