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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 160Mb Drive
Message-ID: <1530@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 89 07:23:35 GMT
References: <664@cf-cm.UUCP>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
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In article <664@cf-cm.UUCP> ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes:
>I see Apple have announced a 160Mb drive in the UK. Does anyone know how, if
>at all, Apple get round the expected problem of so many files the desktop gets
>too big for the resource manager with this device? Is there any new software
>with it, or is it a hope for the best job?

It is virtually impossible to get anywhere near this limit unless you keep
every peice of shareware you have ever seen on your disk (or, unless you
are a major-league pirate).

If by some amazing set of circumstances, you do reach this limit, you can
partition your disk. Or better yet, use the Desktop Manager INIT. I started
(and ended) a long thread on that INIT in this group about four months ago.
It is definitely safe. It has noticeable but minor and non-malevolent effects
under some infrequent conditions, in multifinder only (and these effects only
last until the next bootup).

This problem will be permanently fixed in System 7.0, where they will either
put the Desktop manager into every system, or the upgraded Resource Manager
will use a different format for the resource map (and, horrors! Suitcase will
break, at least for a while...)

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Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}