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Subject: Re: out of memory errors
Summary: Use Finder
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Date: 14 Dec 88 08:41:31 GMT
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In article <7434@potomac.ads.com> jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes:
>
>i've run into a problem with my mac II that i am unable to solve.  I
>am unable to remove, rename or modify a particular folder on my
>desktop.  somehow the file system on this hard disk has become
>corrupted.  i'm certain the problem is not the disk drive.
>
>
>i have 8 meg of memory on my machine by the way, and  140 meg hard
>disk.

I would assume you are running under Multi-Finder with a machine
like this.  Under this assumption...

>any suggestions to correcting this problem?
>

Restart under Finder and try to re-build the desktop.  The Multi-Finder
partition for Finder is large enough for most operations.  One of the 
few operations it is not large enough for is re-building a large
disk.

Good Luck.