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Article #37527Re: What causes System files to suddenly grow huge?
From: David Quarles
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1989 05:20
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1989 05:20
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From article <1649@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, by ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley): =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Some time ago there was a discussion about System files which grew to huge > sizes seemingly without cause. > > Well, we've got a couple of Mac II's that have had this happen recently. > We've already replaced the files, but I don't remember what causes this > problem. Could someone mail me the details along with any suggestions you > have to avoid this happening again? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I just returned from the 9th Annual Florida Instructional Computing Conference in Orlando, Florida. One of the presenters at this conference, Dr. Dennis Dormady, discussed something like this in his presentation ... he called them WARTS. They attach themselves to a file and just grow, some are benign, some are not. Could this be your situation ??? This was an outstanding conference, BTW !! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dave =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= EOT
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!usfvax2!jc3b21!david From: david@jc3b21.UUCP (David Quarles) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What causes System files to suddenly grow huge? Message-ID: <568@jc3b21.UUCP> Date: 9 Feb 89 05:20:23 GMT References: <1649@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL Lines: 22