Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!im4u!ut-sally!ut-emx!osmigo
From: osmigo@ut-emx.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Faster desktop rebuilding info from MACworld
Message-ID: <1489@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 88 02:32:24 GMT
References: <13791@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: osmigo@emx.UUCP (Ron Morgan)
Organization: Speech Communication UT Austin
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In article <13791@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) writes:
>It is claimed to be MUCH faster ( using B-trees )
>
>Will this be available in the next release of the system software?
>I am tired of my 40mg. disk taking so long to rebuild the desktop.

It's supposed to be available from the Appleshare package, although I presume
one doesn't have to purchase the whole thing to get Desktop Manager. The Mac
World article certainly didn't imply it. At any rate, I used it for a while,
and came up with two interesting results.

1. Rebuilding didn't seem much faster except maybe a second or two clipped off
   when returning to the Finder after quitting. Nothing breathtaking by any
   means. I'm running 38 megs on a 45 meg HD, Mac SE with 6.0/4.2, and no
   INIT/CDEV clutter other than Suitcase 1.2.

2. Desktop Manager does something in/with high memory. It kept me from booting
   up a major game program from a hard disk, giving a message reading, "There is
   a problem with the way memory is being allocated (27,910 high bytes used).." 

It's possible that improvements in rebuilding speed would be more apparent
with larger storage setups, say, someplace with a couple hundred megs or
something of that nature. In my case, I just trashed the thing. Didn't amount
to a hill of beans.


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