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From: steele@Apple.COM (Oliver Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System File grows to 10M
Message-ID: <11312@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 30 May 88 19:29:54 GMT
References: <6817@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Reply-To: steele@apple.UUCP (Oliver Steele)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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eto@spacely.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Edward Olsen) writes about a System file and
a Resource that got Too Big.

Your system file has been corrupted.  Replace it.  Don't even try to copy
your FONTs/DAs/etc. from it into the new one; arbitrary resources may
have been trashed.

This is the case any time you see a resource with a huge or negative
size, as it is if you click on a FONT/DA with Font/DA Mover and see
a preposterous size for it.  Exception:  Some ResEdits may show a size
of -1 for certain resources; this means that they're in the ROM.  Don't
try to delete, replace, or copy these resources with that ResEdit.

There's not necessarily a relation between the funny resources and the
program that corrupted them.  My guess would be a crash or errant program
_combined with_ (or maybe the same as) one that attempted to modify the
System file, such as Chooser, Control Panel, or FadeToBlack, but I'm not
a Resource type of guy.

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 Oliver Steele						steele@apple.com
 Apple ATG

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