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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Why does it take forever to launch an app some times???
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Date: 11 May 89 00:45:26 GMT
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In article <3207@ncar.ucar.edu> cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (Craig Ruff) writes:
> of NFS file systems via a GatorBox.  Then I started a small application.
> It took a minute easily before the name appeared on the menu bar.  During
> that time, the little AppleShare arrows were visible.  I don't know what

The Finder was probably updating the desktop information on the server 
volume(s).  Any delay between the time you launch the application and its 
name appearing in the menu bar is the Finder updating the desktop file.  
This would happen if you opened folders, moved icons around, etc.  The 
Finder also empties the trash at this time.

One funny story related to this.  In the early days before MultiFinder, 
certain applications
(which shall remain nameless) would call InitWindows when they exited.  
Besides initializing the Window Manager, this call also drew the gray 
desktop, thus giving the impression that the Finder was taking a long time 
to start up, when really the application was still quitting.


Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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