On 7/25/2002 4:46 PM P. Turtle-Bear Guillermo at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 7/25/2002 2:33 PM Janice Best at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Okay, MacDraw works on the LCIII, which has very little memory. When we try >>to use it on the PM7500, it shut down and said "insufficient memory." This >>is both when it had 72mb memory and after I'd installed a new 128mb stick (I >>made sure the machine saw all 200mb). >> >>Why would this be? > >Have you allotted more memory to MacDraw? I needed to give MacDraw II >(which is the version I have) 12000K so it would open it's maximum of 7 >files (my files are around 100K each). There are issues with some memory >cache or something, so the more you allot the better, but MD will only >open up to 7 files at the same time. Notice that the "Open..." menu item >will be grayed out in MD. > >Other issues: > >MacDraw will not "Save" a document if it resides on a hard disk that has >more than 1GB of free space - I dealt with this a couple of years ago (I >did a web search and found the answer from someone) and have kept the HD >free space under 1GB ever since. Stangely enough "Save As..." worked fine. > >If you double-click (or choose command-o or drag a file to the app icon) >to open a MD file from the Finder it will open okay (usually), but if you >try to open another from the Finder, MD will quit with a type 2 error. >You can select and open a group of files at once from the Finder though, >but again, trying to open files in the Finder will crash MD with type 2. > >Opening from the app menu seems to work the best. > >I'm using MacDraw II on a PM8600/G3400 with OS9.1. > >Turtle-Bear
Also: MD can't run with millions of colors - it will crash! MD seems to run fine in Classic under OSX 10.1.5. Turtle-Bear -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
