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Did you figure it out?

Yeah, I disabled appearance manager entirely and had to move stuff over from 7.6.1 to make sure everything worked. This is still Mac OS 8.1, just without platinum.

Ah, a breath of fresh air!

How do you do this? As far as I remember, you can’t start up if appearance manager is disabled under 8.1. Is there a trick?

I guess the Finder is from System 7.6 and therefore doesn‘t need the Appearance Manager

@alectrona2988 can you have multiple file copy operations at the same time with your setup? Are there any issues with HFS+ disks?

I managed to pull it off too, installing the older version of the appearence manager, disabling platinum option and using the System 7.6.1 Finder. However, using the 7.6.1 Finder prevents you from doing anything during a file operation.

I’d like to try this on a Beige G3 as I’ve never seen one run with Platinum turned off (edit: actually, I lied - Disk Tools runs without Platinum). Also, I bet it’s possible to hack the 8.1 Finder to disable its check for Appearance Manager.

perhaps its possible to modify the 8.1 finder. and yes, the downgrade is apparent with the 7.6.1 finder and not being able to do anything during a file operation. i think it would be nice if the 8.0/8.1 finder can be patched.

I believe some versions of Connectix Speed Doubler > 2? add multi-threaded file copy/duplicate to the 7.x Finder.

I was going to say: Speed Doubler. I can do things on a IIfx under 7.1 while files are copying. Use that.