On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 03:49 PM, Carolyn Shere wrote:
I recently started getting error messages of "too many files open". I could not open Appleworks 6 the other day and today I couldn't open Eudora. I only had one other program open at the time and not a lot of documents (either Acrobat or Explorer were open). I am also getting -42 error messages when Acrobat opens and my Mac error utilities (I have two) indicate that this also means there are too many files open. But I get this message with Acrobat even when nothing else is open (except Spell Tools which opens on start-up).Every process that runs in the background is an open file. if your system has a lot of fonts then each one is an open file. Mac OS 8.6 had a rather low number limiting the number of open files, which was increased in later OS,s. Alsoft had a free utility, named (list open files) on its -ASK AL- web site. There is also one called - Process Viewer- IIRC and others that will show all open files.
I have 384MB of RAM. This is a 9600/233 running OS 8.6. I know that the OS is part of my other problems with Acrobat 5. But don't understand the "too many files" problem.
Any thoughts? Thanks.
Carolyn
Download and run one, you might be surprised how many open files are running in the background. If you have a lot of Fonts in your system folder using Mac OS 8.6, then you will see often see this message.
David in WV.
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