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Retrospect 1.3 crashing under System 7

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From: Anthony Rich
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 07:36
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Now that I've got System 7 up and running, I tried backing up my hard disk
to a Teac 150MB tape drive using Retrospect 1.3's BACKUP function, but I
can't.  Version 1.3 is the new one that's supposed to work under System 7.

In the second backup step, "Choose Archive", I click "Create New" and
get the usual Standard File dialog for naming a new archive file.
But after I type in a name for the new file and click OK, the SF dialog
disappears and Retrospect 1.3 immediately freezes.  The file is not created.

Retrospect 1.3 also freezes if I select "Quit" from the File menu at
nearly any point except immediately after it launches.

I was able to get past the SF dialog successfully once (I don't know why;
I can't do it again) and Retrospect began scanning the hard disk
for files and folders.  It halted in mid-scan and put up a warning that
basically said "Scan incomplete: out of memory.".  I pulled down File/Quit
so I could increase the app memory size, but Quit caused a freeze.

After rebooting, I increased the application memory from 1024K to 2048K, but
now I can't get past the SF dialog crash.  Reinstalling Retrospect afresh
from the update diskette didn't help.

Can anyone out there reproduce (or explain) this problem?

I'm running System 7.0 on a plain Mac II with 8MB of RAM.  The only
extensions/cdevs are MaxAppleZoom 1.3, the Disinfectant 2.4 init, and
Retrospect 1.3's RETRO.SCSI init.
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From: tonyrich@titanic.cs.wisc.edu (Anthony Rich)
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Subject: Retrospect 1.3 crashing under System 7
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Date: 4 Jun 91 07:36:11 GMT
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