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From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why this strange error???
Message-ID: <14003@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 27 Oct 88 09:47:40 GMT
References: <6150029@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Organization: Wolfskill residence; Anaheim, CA (USA)
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In article <6150029@hpcupt1.HP.COM> rterry@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ray Terry) writes:
>
>I posted a note to this conf a couple of weeks back regarding a strange
>error that I saw when QUITing out of some applications;
>
>     Not enough room on the disk to save the contents of the clipboard.
>
>Or something very similar to that. This was happening on a 5 meg Mac II (color)
>, 300 meg internal hard drive (w/about 130 meg of unfragmented free space),
   ^^^                                  ^^^

 If you've got 170 megabytes of Macintosh files on a single hard drive,
it sounds suspiciously like you may be running up against the "outer
limits" of the Resource Manager's abilities. Currently, according to
TN# 210, the maximum number of resources you can have in the Desktop
file is 2727. If that 170 meg worth of files includes a lot of different
applications (as opposed to several multi-meg size files), you might be
seeing a lot of "not enough room"-type messages when the system goes to
update the various files it maintains.

 It's just a guess, but partitioning the drive might help.

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