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From: eto@spacely.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Edward Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: System File grows to 10M
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Date: 24 May 88 19:49:35 GMT
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Reply-To: eto@spacely.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Edward Olsen)
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Grp, JPL
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I have encountered a strange growth of the System file on some Macintosh II's.
The files, which I initially installed with a size of 241K (since we have
Suitcase, I have stripped all fonts and DAs out except for the bare minimum)
have grown to over 10M.  A clover-I indicates this as well as the report of
space used on the internal hard disk.  ResEdit indicates that the growth
appears in the resource fork, but when I search through all the resources
I can only identify one which is abnormally large.  It is Cmra (or cmra),
and reports a size of 1.6M.  The other 7M+ do not show up at all.  Funny
thing, I can drag the system file over to an 800K floppy with no trouble
(although Cmra still appears to be 1.6M).

A clean release of the system does not contain Cmra at all.  I therefore
cut it out of the system and found it returned to 241K in size.  No problem
operating since then.  I also had Cmra on my Mac Plus, but it never grew
beyond 26 bytes.  I cut it out of the system there as well with no ill
effects.

Can anybody give me an explanation of what is happening?  I cannot find a
reference to Cmra anywhere.  All Macintoshes were running Finder 6.0 and
System 4.2 and Multifinder, and were connected to LaserWriter Pluses.  The
Macintosh II's were equipped with rev B ROMs and Radius Full Page Displays.

			    Edward Olsen