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From: dyson@Apple.COM (Patrick Dyson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: out of memory errors
Summary: Disk First Aid
Message-ID: <22120@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 88 21:07:07 GMT
References: <7434@potomac.ads.com>
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <7434@potomac.ads.com> jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes:
>
>when i do try to perform operations on this folder, the mac claims
>that the folder is busy.  worse... i am getting "no more memory"
>errors from my jasmine direct tape utility while setting up the dump
>parameters.  i cannot rebuild the desktop since doing so also
>generates out of memory errors.  i was hoping that rebuilding the
>desktop would allow me to remove the wierd folder.

Sometimes the catalog b-tree gets strangely linked and/or has wrong info. This
is common when you are doing some sort of file i/o and the machine crashes. The
other indications are long folder-open times in the finder and i/o errors 
when trying to change thr folder attributes.
>
As for what you can do, the first thing would be to run Disk First Aid. If
it doesn't detect the error, or can't fix it, do a finder drag of all of the
accessible files on the disk to another volume and re-initialize the disk. The
only way to actually fix a badly linked b-tree other than Disk First Aid that
I know of is FEdit and the HFS chapter... No easy matter!

best of luck.

Pat Dyson
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