Help Skin not updating

[lvlagician]

Hello,

Sorry if this seems a simple question but my modified skin is not updating every 1 second as per update=1000, from below is there something im missing that is preventing the skin from updating? It updates if i do a manual refresh but only then.

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000

[Metadata]
Name=
Config=
Description=
Instructions=
Version=
Tags=
License=
Variant=
Preview=

;End of added Metadata

[Variables]

Path=FileListPlugin.dll
Documents=E:\Downloads

[PathDocuments]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=#Path#
Field=FolderPath
WildcardSearch=*.rar;*.par2;*.nfo;*.sfv
FolderIndex=2
Path=#Documents#
Recursive=1

[FolderSizeDocuments]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=#Path#
Field=FolderSizeStr
FolderIndex=2
Format=Dynamic

[FileCountDocuments]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=#Path#
Field=FileCountStr
FolderIndex=2

[FolderCountDocuments]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=#Path#
Field=FolderCountStr
FolderIndex=2

[Line2]
Meter=IMAGE
X=95
Y=-3
ImageName=Line.png

[IconDocuments]
Meter=IMAGE
X=160
Y=7
ImageName=Documents.png
LeftMouseDownAction=!Execute ["#Documents#"]

[Text2]
Meter=STRING
X=100
Y=5
FontColor=255, 255, 255, 255
StringStyle=Bold
Fontsize=8
StringAlign=Left
Fontface=Helvetica
StringEffect=SHADOW
FontEffectColor=0,0,0,80
Text="Downloads"
AntiAlias=1

[Items2]
Meter=STRING
MeasureName=FileCountDocuments
X=r
Y=16r
FontColor=255, 255, 255, 240
StringStyle=Bold
Fontsize=7
StringAlign=Left
Fontface=Helvetica
StringEffect=SHADOW
FontEffectColor=0,0,0,30
AntiAlias=1
Text="%1 items"

[Size2]
Meter=STRING
MeasureName=FolderSizeDocuments
X=r
Y=12r
FontColor=255, 255, 255, 240
StringStyle=Bold
Fontsize=7
StringAlign=Left
Fontface=Helvetica
StringEffect=SHADOW
FontEffectColor=0,0,0,30
AntiAlias=1
Text="Size: %1B"

[eclectic-tech]

Your skin crashed my rainmeter on refresh...

To get it to operate I changed the FolderIndex to "0" on all the measures: FolderIndex=0

Then to get it to update, you can add a counter to refresh the skin:

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[Counter1]
Measure=Calc
Formula=Counter%10
IfEqualValue=9
IfEqualAction=!Refresh

Will refreshes every 10 seconds...

[smurfier]

The FileListPlugin has been known to crash Rainmeter as it can take more than one update cycle to index the files.

[eclectic-tech]

The FileListPlugin has been known to crash Rainmeter as it can take more than one update cycle to index the files.

Yeah, I am aware of that, my "test folder" had 4.2 gig in it! That's time-consuming...

Getting rainmeter back was a simple edit of the rainmeter.ini, removed the reference to FileListPlugin, and restarting... I increased the rainmeter update to 100000 and looked into getting the skin working.

Drive info does not change that quickly, so if you remember to set a high update in rainmeter, the plugin is fairly stable...