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Date: Tue, 28-Aug-84 18:46:25 EDT
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From: Rick McGeer (on an aaa-60-s)
One disk I'm using for correspondence currently has 34K of macwrite
documents (couple of Macpaint-generated pictures, too), and one Macpaint
document. What with the necessary system files, plus macwrite and macpaint
to open the documents, plus enough room for the print utility to store
intermediate copies before printing, the disk is getting kind of full.

I'm afraid that at six bucks a Sony this kind of storage density
really isn't enough. Now, things would get a *lot* better if the Mac were
intelligent enough to dig the system, macwrite, and macpaint stuff off one
disk and the documents off another. However, it looks like the Mac has
exactly one active drive at any one time, and it won't look at the second.
Is there any way to get the Mac to use both drives in a 2-drive system?

Second: I could have avoided this, I suppose, by saving the
document, exiting Macwrite and then printing the document directly from the
Finder. But I didn't. Instead I printed from Macwrite, getting a "disk
full" message. Eventually I cleaned out the notepad and scrapbook, to the
point where I had 36K nominally free on disk (up from 29K); at that point
the print utility had enough free disk space to print. What worried me was
that I checked the size of the document later, and found out that it was
only 15K; in other words, the print utility saves two bytes for every one in
the file. Does the print utility store bitmaps, or something?

Rick.