Hi Gang,
I think I was working too late last night doing a clean install on my
G3C500 G3 with OS 9.1. I quit after I installed the new system drawer
on 2 partitions of my new 40 GB IBM drive and would do the clean
install process when I was more awake. I probably should have stopped earlier.
Something I tried to install and I'm not sure what it was or even
if that was it,
my C500 crashed by shutting down. This shut down from something I did
occurred a second time and I still can't remember the event.
Next day when I looked at the system drawers both in the 2 partitions
had swollen to over 950 MB. Also most of the system files were either
370 K or 614 K. My system drawer on my Mac G3 is only 314 MB.
When I opened the Appearance folder in the system drawer (either the old or new
system drawer), all of the 3D graphics in the desktop pictures drawer were
614 K. Similarly all the photos in the same file were 614 K while all
of the fonts were 307 K
with a few larger still. The Help File was bloated to 465 MB! All of
the control panels
are either 307, 614 or 921 K (307 x 2 = 614, 614 x 2 = 921). So I
freshly installed
TechTool Pro 3.0.2 (wish Microtech were faster on delivery of the CD V 3.0.4!)
and ran that on my disk. The first time I ran it on TTP revealed many
had bundle
bit errors and others. After the fix from the TTP CD. the big file
size had not
changed. I think I formatted in the extended format vs. standard format for
the partitions and usually select standard format.Could that make this kind
of a result with 307, 614 K values being assigned to most
small files under a MB? When I drag one of these bloated
files to save to a floppy, the fie size is what appears to be
reasonable file sizes. For instance 2 files jpeg files on the HD that
were listed at 307 K each when saved to the hard disk as 24 K and 29 K.
But when these files saved on the floppy are dragged back to the HD they again
get bloated to 307 K from 24 K on the floppy. In the spirit of
anything can happen
what's happening here? I ran TTP on all system and a bunch of system
files had with
bad bundle bits which were repaired. But the repairs had no effect on
this file size
conundrum. I've rebuilt the desktop, zapped the pram, trashed the
system, finder
prefs and Mac OS all without change. Any ideas? Thank.
Eric
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