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RainbowHooves
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Rainmeter.ini not loading [I think]

Post by RainbowHooves »

So I am starting to go crazy, I've tried everything now :?

I have been using Rainmeter for a long time without any problems, but then today I desided that I hate myself so I should F#*$ that up.
I wanted to share my clean and amazing theme with the world so I first made a .thm file and then .rmskin everything was in oder and I wanted to test this before I uploaded it.
Skins got into the /skins folder but they didn't load.
So I manually loaded and repositioned and did all this again (Maybe I had made a mistake).
/me for a few HOURS trying EVERYTHING, nothing would work.
As any normal person I though, well, no one is going to download my theme anyways so I should scrap the idea.
Then when I restarted Rainmeter nothing loaded, now not just a theme problem, my rainmeter.ini wouldn't load, I tried deleting it, cleaning it, and again, nothing. Now all my day has gone in to this, in my frustration I reinstalled Rainmeter, loaded many differesnt combination of skins I've used for the last few months, positioned them perfectly but now even after the reinstalling no skin will load after I restart!! help!


tl;dr - sorry for writing my life story.
Skins dosn't load when I restart Rainmeter.


Maybe this helps, when I load my skins my .ini looks like;
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
Active=1
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
WindowX=0
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
WindowY=0
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
ClickThrough=0
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
Draggable=1
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
SnapEdges=1
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
KeepOnScreen=1
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
AlwaysOnTop=0
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
WindowX=1046
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
WindowY=39
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
Active=1
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
WindowX=1046
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
WindowY=39
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
ClickThrough=0
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
Draggable=1
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
SnapEdges=1
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
KeepOnScreen=1
[Rainbow Theme #7 [Clean]\Clock]
AlwaysOnTop=0

That looks, well, wrong.
RainbowHooves
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Joined: September 17th, 2012, 6:31 pm

Re: Rainmeter.ini not loading [I think]

Post by RainbowHooves »

Fixed!
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Kaelri
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Re: Rainmeter.ini not loading [I think]

Post by Kaelri »

You may have already realized this, but for future reference, the issue is that skin folders cannot contain [brackets]. It's better to use (parentheses) instead.
RainbowHooves
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Joined: September 17th, 2012, 6:31 pm

Re: Rainmeter.ini not loading [I think]

Post by RainbowHooves »

Yeah, I got that.
And the reason none of my skins would work is that in the prosses of making a theme I organized everything with [].