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Article #28686Re: System File grows to 10M
From: Oliver Steele
Date: Mon, 30 May 1988 19:29
Date: Mon, 30 May 1988 19:29
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eto@spacely.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Edward Olsen) writes about a System file and a Resource that got Too Big. Your system file has been corrupted. Replace it. Don't even try to copy your FONTs/DAs/etc. from it into the new one; arbitrary resources may have been trashed. This is the case any time you see a resource with a huge or negative size, as it is if you click on a FONT/DA with Font/DA Mover and see a preposterous size for it. Exception: Some ResEdits may show a size of -1 for certain resources; this means that they're in the ROM. Don't try to delete, replace, or copy these resources with that ResEdit. There's not necessarily a relation between the funny resources and the program that corrupted them. My guess would be a crash or errant program _combined with_ (or maybe the same as) one that attempted to modify the System file, such as Chooser, Control Panel, or FadeToBlack, but I'm not a Resource type of guy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oliver Steele steele@apple.com Apple ATG Disclaimer: this isn't official.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!gatech!udel!rochester!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!decwrl!nsc!voder!apple!steele From: steele@Apple.COM (Oliver Steele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: System File grows to 10M Message-ID: <11312@apple.Apple.Com> Date: 30 May 88 19:29:54 GMT References: <6817@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Reply-To: steele@apple.UUCP (Oliver Steele) Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 24