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From: chma@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Michael Antolovich)
Subject: Re: Copying to floppy doesn't correctly check space
Message-ID: <1991Jun23.234451.11174@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland
References: <5334@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 91 23:44:51 GMT

In article <5334@ryn.mro4.dec.com> long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) writes:
>
> A new possible bug in 7.0! What fun.
>
> I was copying a folder containing 96 items, in 1,415,436 bytes, to a freshly
> formatted HD floppy. The Finder trundled along, never warning about
> insufficent space, until it got close to the end, when it said "the command
> could not be completed because of insufficient space" or something like that.
> I imagine this was because of desktop file update. This is probably something
> that should be taken into account when evaluating space on the destination.
>

	I'm afraid I have noticed this sort of error in System 6.0.X.
It only happens as you say when the thing would have fitted if the
Desktop wasn't made bigger.  I'm not sure if this only happened when I
was using the DeskTop Manager INIT or all the time (I suspect the
first).
					Michael.
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