Desktop finder problem summary

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From: Steve Carnes
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1989 18:46

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>>Problem rebuilding the desktop file:

>>On restart I press the command and option keys together to
>>force a rebuild of the desktop file.  After about 2 minutes of
>>disk I/O action the following alert message is displayed:

     >>The desktop could not be completely rebuilt (out of
     >>memory)

>>What memory are we talking here?? Disk or core?? What can be
>>done.  Any help would be appreciated!

>>Dai Jones

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Thanks very much to all that responded!!  And to those that
had the same questions the solution is to try the same thing
under FINDER rather than MULTIFINDER.  And we are talking
core..

-- 
Steve Carnes       carnes@ico.isc.com        uucp: {ncar,nbires}!ico!carnes
"To save what wilderness is left in the American Southwest -- and in the
 American Southwest only the wilderness is worth saving -- we are going to need
 all the recruits we can get."     - Edward Abbey

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From: carnes@ico.ISC.COM (Steve Carnes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Desktop finder problem summary
Message-ID: <16158@vail.ICO.ISC.COM>
Date: 4 Oct 89 18:46:24 GMT
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