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From: pst@canary.cdi.com (Paul Traina)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: slow finder problems & desktop manager
Keywords: desktop manager, finder, slow
Message-ID: <545@comdesign.CDI.COM>
Date: 25 Oct 88 20:14:02 GMT
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I have a Mac II with a CMS Pro-102K 102mb hard disk.  There is no partitioning,
I am running it as one 102mb logical drive.  I am running Finder 6.0 and
System 4.0 and MultiFinder 1.0.

Without Desktop Manager,  the system is incredibly slow to create/copy new
files.  I moved the Desktop Manager INIT into my System Folder and now things
are much faster in that department.  However, now system bootup takes much
longer -- specificly the time between when the last init is loaded and the
menu bar appears at the top of the screen and the time when I can actually
begin to do something on the mac (icons appear if any windows are open,
trash can icon appears if I'm running MultiFinder) is *much* longer than
before.  It seems to me that DtM is rebuilding the Desktop DB and Desktop DF
files on reboot.  (By the way, I did not delete the Desktop file itself.)

I think I must have done something wrong, could someone please give me the
*exact* sequence of events for properly installing Desktop Manager?  Should
I remove the Desktop file, should I rebuild the dekstop via the control
panel, or what?

Thanks,
Paul


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