Fix classic apple drop down menu

In classic, I use the "apple menu" folder that appears in the drop down menu for Classic that is in the OS X menu (that 9 that appears if you click "show classic status in menu) in the systems preferences (OSX). This item has disappeared a couple of times when I do some OSX updates or apple security downloads. Might have gone on a verify permissions. Not sure what makes it disappear, but the fix is easy. Turns out that the memory for the classic apple menu items was reset to default of 128, and that created problem. Fix involves remembering how classic worked. Need to open the control panels FOLDER; then click on menu options and hit get information (command I). When it is open, increase the 128 to 258 or whatever, and the "apple menu" folder reappears in classic drop down menu next time you restart.

When OS 9 was used as a primary operating system, the Apple Menu Options control panel was always prone to having its preferences spontaneously and mysteriously corrupted, and at boot time Conflict Catcher often alerted me that AMO was using more memory at startup than it had requested — which might have been the cause of the corruption. I eventually found that the remedy was to allocate a lot more Preferred memory to AMO than the default setting of 128K — especially if one had lots of items and aliases of large folders in the Apple menu. I eventually set mine at 4000K, and my problems with the AMO prefs file and the CC notices at startup went away for good. It's something of a surprise to me that the same misbehavior continues even when OS 9 is only run as Classic within OS X, but your post suggests that it does, John. Good catch!

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