At 11:13 PM -0400 6/21/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:To increase the Finder's preferred memory allocation, you need to first fool the system into thinking the Finder is a normal application. Then make the change, then change the Finder back to being special.
1. Make a copy of the Finder. NEVER ever work on the live file! Do this by option-dragging Finder to your desktop. Make sure you see the copy dialog!
2. Change the copy of Finder to be a normal application.
Any tool that changes file type codes will work fine. ResEdit, File Buddy, etc. Change the Finder's type from "FNDR" to "APPL". Case counts! Gotta be exact!
If you have ResEdit just open the copy of Finder then open up the single Size resource, scroll to the bottom and set the size there.
And if you do it as you suggest, without creating a new resource, you're violating Apple's specs -- which will cause future patchers to fail. And, being ResEdit, there are a zillion other things that can wrong.
I shouldn't have included ResEdit in my previous posting. It simply isn't the right tool for the average user.
- Dan.
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