Re: Lots of icons and random Infinite Icon List

[schefflr@news.msus.edu (Bill Scheffler)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@parka.winternet.com) wrote:
: Ok, while I'm in the middle of debugging everything, someone said that
: he had a rather large set of icon files (2MB of them, in roughly 12
: files) that caused random "Warning: infinite icon list" errors on
: starting the Finder sometimes. I'm trying to duplicate that now, but
: after pulling all the icon files off archive disks that I had, I've
: got roughly 1Mb of them over 100 files. No immediate luck in
: duplicating this.

	I had the same problem on my system when I used Playful from GS+
Magazine.  I only had 150k+ worth of icon files thoughh.  Whenever I'd try
to play a sound by double clicking, the message would pop up in the middle
and the machine would crash.  I've reinstalled my system since then and
everything seems to work now.  I did redo my icon files with IconEd 1.3
this time around and everything is fine now.  Playful gives no errors
anymore.  I suspect ICE (also from GS+ magazine) trashed my icon files in
some way and thus "triggered" the error.  That is, of course, only a
speculation on my part, for what it's worth.  When I open my icon files
with ICE now, I notice that some of the line edit fields have a ton of
inverse ?'s in them.  Anyone have any ideas?  I'd love to see this bug
trashed.

:    Anyone ever see this on their machine in a halfway repeatable
: state?  I'm not totally sure that all my icon files are valid (a
: verifier program is in order, which I hope to do shortly. First a
: shell program and then hopefully an App or NDA/S16), but I am getting
: some weirdball cases in the Finder Get Info dialogs.

	Well, Playful (a FinderExtra from GS+ magazine) is the only thing
that triggered it on my system.  Good luck in squashing this bug (and
thanks for GUPP)!

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