bclee@.berkeley.edu (Bob C. Lee) (02/06/91)
Lately I've been having problems with my Mac. There were some crashes and some annoying problems. Ok, I'll just try really hard to describe the problems, hope you can help me. 1) Quite frequently, the BOMB would appear with the message: "Finder on this disk is damgaed or missing" 2) When I use GetInfo and some other commands this message appears: "Not enough memory to do this command" 3) When I try to open some file or folder, this leaped out: "Out of finder memory" Ok, for problem 2 & 3, usually I had no problem when I tried it the second time. 4) Sometimes the screen mysteriously redrew itself. Whatever modification I made moments ago would be of no effect. Oh, yeah, and after the redraw, some files I put in a folder would appear far away at either the upper-righthand corner or the lower-right one. When I say "far" I mean about two or three window sizes away. 5) Finder gone, (using MultiFinder), but returned after I quit all the applications. These were the most annoying problems among some other crashes which I really can't remember how they happened. BTW, I have a Mac IIci with 8meg RAM, 80 meg HD. I suspected some sort of virus present, but found none after I ran all the virus programs I possessed. If you need the list of all of my inits and cdevs, I'd e-mail them to you. I don't remember the list right off my head. Anyways, so far I don't have any data lost yet, but I am quite paranoid about losing some in the future, so if you have ANY idea what is happening, please reply via e-mail. Sorry about the length. Thanx in advance. G'day, ...b.o.b...
nobody@blia.sharebase.com (Nobody at all) (02/08/91)
I have a IIci, 8Meg RAM with a Quantum 105m internal, running 6.0.5 somewhat without your symptoms ... I qualify this due to a game Indiana Jones failing strangely IFF several %Opens are performed without any intervening %Quits. I'm running DiskExpress II, Virex, Norton Fast Find and Directory assistance, Word 4.0, Canvas 2.1, Illustrator 88 2.0, ... without problems. jeffb@sharebase.com
paul@u02.svl.cdc.com (Paul Kohlmiller) (02/08/91)
bclee@.berkeley.edu (Bob C. Lee) writes: > Lately I've been having problems with my Mac. There were some > crashes and some annoying problems. Ok, I'll just try really > hard to describe the problems, hope you can help me. > 1) Quite frequently, the BOMB would appear with the message: > "Finder on this disk is damgaed or missing" It's kind of unlikely that the Finder is missing but it might be damaged and you might need to reinstall they system. Try some of the other ideas (below) first. > 2) When I use GetInfo and some other commands this message appears: "Not enough memory to do this command" I think this means you do not have enough memory allocated for the Finder which may be the cause of the above problem as well. Try to increase by selecting the Finder icon and using GetInfo (hope you can do this much) and increasing the size. If the current size is around 160K try 300K. > 3) When I try to open some file or folder, this leaped out: > "Out of finder memory" Same as above. Might also need to redo the Desktop file. see next. > 4) Sometimes the screen mysteriously redrew itself. Whatever > modification I made moments ago would be of no effect. When I had this happen to me I had to rebuild the Desktop File. Hold down the command-option keys during startup. > 5) Finder gone, (using MultiFinder), but returned after I quit > all the applications. I had this happen to me just once and that was because I needed more memory and the system got more memory by quitting the Finder. Were you running some background printing when this happened? Large, complex postscript files do bad things to print spoolers including the Print Monitor. There are some utilities that might help you: 1. There are things called system heap fixers which might help in a few cases. 2. There is a book called The Macintosh Bible and its companion "What do I do now?" 3. There are things called Mug SHots that create a list of inits and other useful system stuff that might help in reporting a problem. Good Luck. Paul Kohlmiller standard disclaimers -- // Paul H. Kohlmiller // "Cybers, Macs and Mips" // // Control Data Corporation // Internet: paul@robin.svl.cdc.com // // All comments are strictly // America Online: Paul CDC // // my own. // Compuserve: 71170,2064 //
st890123@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Bear) (02/12/91)
Re install the system software