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Date: Fri, 25 May 84 18:02:10 pdt
From: uw-beaver!hamachi%ucbkim@Berkeley (Gordon Hamachi)
To: info-mac@sumex-aim.ARPA
Subject: Slow and Impossible

The finder has problems coping with even moderate numbers of
documents.  I discovered this by:

	Cold boot from the system disk (stock, unmodified, Apple-supplied)
	Eject
	Insert a completely blank disk called ``blank 9''
	Create lots of empty folders, named aa, ab, ac, az, ba, bb, etc.

The finder runs out of RAM memory when trying to cope with heavily
populated disks.  After 55 empty folders, the following messages occur:

    Please insert the system disk
    There is not enough memory to duplicate the selected item
    Please insert the disk blank9
    Please insert the system disk
    There is not enough memeory to remember this disk.
	Its image will disappear from the desktop.
    [blank9] goes away.

This is specifically NOT an out-of-disk-space problem: there is still well
over 300 K of disk space available when the problem happens.

I have run into the same problem with as few as 32 empty file folders.
On the other hand, I was once able to generate a disk with over 100 files,
but it took over 34 minutes to ``Clean up'' the icons.

Am I doing something wrong?  Is this problem fixed in newer releases?
Is this a toy operating system?