Path: utzoo!dptcdc!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!wb1j+ From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Multifinder runs out of memory rebuilding desk top Message-ID: Date: 18 Apr 89 04:14:51 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 31 The Finder is just like any other application, and thus gets only as much memory as specified in it's get-info box... Two solutions: Set the Finder's MultiFinder memory higher by using "Get Info..." on the Finder in the System Folder (intersting point: The finder is really an application with a special type, but unlike other applications, it's SIZE resource can be get-info changed while it is running). Restart the machine and rebuild the desktop. Other: Only rebuild the desktop w/o running multifinder... You really shouldn't have to rebuild the desktop very often (I rebuild about once a month simply because I have a lot of stuff move through and the desktop gets a tad bit large)... This shouldn't be too much of an inconvenience. Notes: It might be a good idea to kick up the finder's partition a little bit anywyay; I have had it refuse to copy files because of lack of memory... During normal operation, the Finder shouldn't need much memory, though. Apple: When will the support for the new multifinder Temp calls be implimented in this very set of situations (copying, rebuild)? Next versions of Finder? Though so... :-) hope this helps... b.bum wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu