jrk@information-systems.east-anglia.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway CMP RA) (11/02/90)
I often get the message "The file "(whatever)" could not be opened/printed (out of Finder memory)". This is despite the fact that I have given the Finder a 300k partition, and "About the Finder" shows that it is using less than 2/3 of it. The message only happens when I try to run an application when the largest free block is only just large enough for it, or when it is smaller, and I say OK to the alert asking me if I want to run it in the available memory; and not always then. It's as if something happens in the process of launching that preempts part of the memory the application was supposed to get. What is going on? How can I prevent this happening? This is on a MacIIfx, System 6.0.5, MultiFinder 6.1b9, and a zillion inits (removing which doesnt change the situation, so I wont list them). -- Richard Kennaway SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. Internet: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk uucp: ...mcvax!ukc!uea-sys!jrk