Problem with making new skins

[PoinTool]

I started making skins so I want to test what Im making
so I opened a new folder in "Documents/rainmeter/skins" like I should do and after making something there refreshed rainmeter and rainmeter doesnt show it in skins (in the software it self)
what should I do in order to make new skins work?

[MerlinTheRed]

What exactly did you make there? The normal procedure is creating a new folder in the skins folder and then putting a file with the .ini extension in there. So the file you created should be something like C:\Users\You\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\MySkin\Skin.ini.

Often people don't have the stupid Windows "hide known file extensions" turned off, which results in them actually naming their skin file Skin.ini.txt. Try turning that off and then see if it works. Another alternative is opening the file in notepad and saving it as Skin.ini (make sure you have the "All Files *.*" filter turned on or it might add the .txt for you automatically.

[Lightz39]

Ensure your text file is actually a .ini and not a .ini.txt. That happened to me the other day and it drove me up the wall trying to figure out what was wrong.

EDIT: Which is what was just stated above.

[PoinTool]

yay it worked. I fill stupid.