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From: andyi@mmm.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Compacting stacks
Message-ID: <1517@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 16:08:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 20 16:08:16 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 12:50:23 EST
Organization: SERC/3M, St. Paul
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Howdy -

I am having serious trouble compacting a (fairly) large stack (16,500 cards).
It's a very simple stack: 5 background fields, only 1 background.  Every time
I try to compact it, it chugs away for 10s of minutes and then either crashes,
or "unexpectedly quits" (if I try from multifinder) or comes up with a dialog
stating that it couldn't do it.  

I'm using a Mac II w/ 2 meg, 40 meg hard drive (with 10 meg free), sys 4.2 
and finder 6.0.  It fails in both regular and multifinder.  The stack 
originally was 4.4 meg in size and after the first failure it went to 4.9 meg, 
then to 5.4 meg in the next failure.  Also, after every failure, I get a new 
stack "Temp <stackname> 1" on my disk.

Any suggestions?  Anyone else have trouble compacting stacks?

Andy Ihlenfeldt                      uucp: ihnp4!mmm!andyi
3M, St. Paul, MN                     -or-  rutgers!umn-cs!mmm!andyi
(612) 736-7143