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From: lauac@mead.qal.berkeley.edu (Alexander Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Font/Sound Valet troubles
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Date: 12 May 89 17:20:51 GMT
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My newly updated version of Font/Sound Valet (thanks, Steve!) is
now giving me major troubles.  Well, not THAT major, but...well,
let me describe them to you.

I unpacked a font file (packed previously with the "old" version
of Font/Sound Valet) and added about 200K of fonts to it, making
it almost 700K in size.  No problem so far.  The problems came
when I tried to re-pack the file.

F/SV got about a quarter of the way through before choking and
saying, "Could not finish packing because there is not enough RAM
for Font/Sound Valet or the system software." (not a direct quote
but quite close) Since this was on a 1 meg SE/30, I decided to
try it on the 4 meg //cx.  Same message, both in MultiFinder and
UniFinder.

Since the Suitcase documentation says that if a file is partly
packed there is no damage to the file, I decided to unpack it on
my vanilla SE at home.  Crash, boom, bang, both ID=01 (extremely
rare on an SE) and ID=02 after I clicked on the restart button.
I eventually needed to do a cold reboot.

So, what should I do?  I tossed the file, but I can probably
recreate the problem since I have a backup of the original.

--- Alex
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