[comp.sys.mac] Strange Finder Out of Memory problem

ra_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu (07/15/89)

I have a 100 meg disk broken up into 5 partitions.  Would the partitioning
itself increase the amount of memory the Finder needs?  I only have about 30
megs in total (my disk crashed and I haven't restored everything).

Sometimes recently when I try to copy not all that many files (5-10) from one
partition to another I get the message that the Finder is out of memory and to
copy the files in 2  groups.  I have allocated 200k for the Finder, but it
still does this.  When I do "About Finder", sure enough, it seems to be using
all the memory allocated for it.  When I closed a couple of windows the copy
worked.

Is something screwy with my Finder (it might have been damaged, since I
recovered it from the crashed disk before I reformatted it), or is this normal
behavior with multiple partitions?  (These are true partitions, BTW).

                                                                     
Robert
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