jsmorley wrote:You need to uninstall the "standard" installation you did, so the association for .rmskin is removed, then install Rainmeter "portable" and manually create a file association between .rmskin and C:\Rainmeter\SkinInstaller.exe or wherever you installed Rainmeter.
The issue is that if you still have Rainmeter installed "standard", then a file association for .rmskin still points to that installation.
I'll try it.
How do I make a file association between .rmskin and C:\Rainmeter\SkinInstaller.exe?
Nox VII wrote:It works now, but the skins must not be in the user's file directory.
Thanks for the help.
Right. Everything will be in C:\Rainmeter. It will have sub-folders for the skins, and the settings like Rainmeter.ini and the plugins, and everything else. It will all live in C:\Rainmeter, and never touch any other folder on your system.
It will work fine this way, once you get the Startup shortcut and file association to .rmskin sorted out, but we are still looking at your issue. It's a strange one, as I can't replicate it. It has something to do with having the language set to Greek, and setting your account name (and thus the C:\Users folder) to Μακης, and then changing to English but leaving that folder name. That has confused something in Windows, but I'm not sure what.
We have taken a look at this issue and think we have found the sequence of events that can cause it.
What happens is that the routines we are using get confused and angry when a folder or filename used by the Skin Installer consists of a sequence of characters that are a mixture of:
1) Regular ASCII chars from decimal 0-127, like a, or M, or 2
2) Characters using a CodePage, which are Extended ASCII chars, from decimal 127-255, like Ä, or Ü, or Æ
3) Unicode characters, like 族, or Ц, or அ
So if you create a .rmskin with this filename:
fooÄ民族.rmskin
or have a folder name using a similar construct:
C:\Users\fooÄ民族\Documents
then when the Skin Installer tries to install the .rsmkin it will fail, with the unfortunate and misleading error message that the .rmskin was not created by, or was modified after, the skin creation tool in Rainmeter.
We are looking at resolving this for an upcoming beta.