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From: jcav@ellis.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Re : running out of finder memory.
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.155451.11072@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 15:54:51 GMT
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In article <6890@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>In article <1991Mar5.201626.19003@unhd.unh.edu> pas1@unhd.unh.edu (Paul A Simoneau) writes:
>-->> I keep runninout of finder memory.
>-->>How can I make it bigger?
>-->>
>-->Open the System Folder.
>-->Click once on the icon for Finder
>-->Select Get Info from the File menu
>-->Change the Application Memory allocation in the lower right corner
>-->Restart your Mac
>>
>>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.  
>
>No; the Mac is smart enough to deal with this.  You can set whatever
>application size you like on the Finder, but it won't take effect
>until the next restart.  You don't need to boot from another system to
>modify it.

I believe that under early versions of Multifinder you did in fact have to
boot from another system in order to change the Finder's partition size.
Kudos to Apple for removing that restriction.  Now if only you could change
the partition size of any application while it is open.

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