The quotes are borked...lol.

I reinstalled with the non beta....same thing...aaaarrrgggghhhhh.

RND - I asked the author of ABP what might be the cause of your problem. After lookng at the screenshot you provided, he told me...

He has RainBrowser opened in which I can clearly see that he hasn't stored ABP in Skins/ABP but in Skins/ABPRelease/Template/Skins/ABP. So simply putting ABP in the right folder should solve his problem.

Here is a screenshot showing my RainBrowser with ABP, and you can see how it differs from yours...

That is so cool of you to find out for me. I don't understand why they don't package these things so that they go to the right places, or at least provide clear instructions on how to do it.

The instructions I got say to extract the zip to the rainmeter folder in my documents if it isn't a rlskin format. It don't say anything about sorting the files inside the zip.

RND - I'm not sure how your download ended up the way it did, because ABP is in .rmskin format. When you clicked on download, it should have come up with choosing to open it using rainstaller or save it. If you chose open, it would have installed it to all the right folders.

Just discovered what the problem is likely to be...

There is a posting http://rainmeter.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5888&start=30 at the Rainmeter Forum for ABP, and someone else was having the same problem. Read it and see if it's the same as yours, if so, the answer is...

Your zip program. It coud be detecting the .rmskin as a .zip file, and unzipping it. Don't let it, or zip it back up and rename it to .rmskin. Then just double-click it.

Hope that helps.

And to add to what you said RND you do not have to sort any files if the skin is not in .rmskin format. There are still a lot of skins that you just unzip the folder directly to your rainmeter/skins folder found in your documents or place the the extracted folder there. Just make sure your not placing the individual skin files there. They have to be in a folder with the skin name inside the rainmeter skins folder or they will be all over the place in your config option and not work. As time goes on.rmskin format will be the standard but for now most skins are still downloaded in files that are zipped.

Cool thing about Rainmeter is Vark. A UI right up front you can build the skin with. Way cool. What I found a little confusing (no surprise for me) was all the different ini's. But if you take your time with them I guess they're okay. A far cry from what it used to be.

Uvah - Vark's creator did an earlier version called Infinity, which is a single ini, you can get it at http://theumad.deviantart.com/gallery/28043747#/d2s9zje But what I like best about Vark is that you can have the icons going vertical, horizontal, slanted, squared, etc.

Did that, no go.

Really! Now that is very interesting. Thanks Karmat.

RnD. Try this. If the folder you download is a .zip right click and rename it .rmskin. I did that and the rainmeter image comes up like Vark. The teardrop. Click on it and it should install. If it does that will automatically place the folder where it belongs. Hope this helps.

"RnD. Try this. If the folder you download is a .zip right click and rename it .rmskin. I did that and the rainmeter image comes up like Vark. The teardrop. Click on it and it should install. If it does that will automatically place the folder where it belongs. Hope this helps."

That will only work for some skins. It depends on the files and how they are zipped. An example could be taken from sysmetrix. If you right click and highlight all the individual files of a sysmetrix skin you can then zip them and rename the zip extension to smx. But if you zip the folder that the files are in your sysmetrix skin will not work. I know that sounds obvious but you would be surprised how many people get that step wrong.

RND what skin again are you trying to install? At this point I do not know why your having a problem. The only 2 procedures I ever use to install rainmeter skins are to simply click on an .rmskin file which installs itself or to extract non rmskin format folders into the rainmeter skin folder in my documents.

I think you should do what karmat said. I agree that perhaps it has something to do with the way the files are being recognized.

ABP

If I was in your situation I would do 2 things. First thing I would do is try a different zip program and make sure to set it as the default zip. I am not sure what your using but a nice free one that I have used before is 7-zip. Right now I use winzip pro but that cost and I think 7-zip is probably just as good. http://www.7-zip.org/

Like I have said you would have to make sure that whatever new zip you try it is set as the default program for opening zip files. In this case it might give you that option when you install it or ask you what files you would like to associate it with.

The next thing I would do is uninstall rainmeter completely. I would go further by searching for rainmeter in the registry and deleting everything that came up but you do not have to do that. Just uninstall it and then head over to the site and download either 1.3 or 1.4. As karmat has said the 1.4 beta is stable and that is what I am using.

Once rainmeter is installed it gives you the option to choose what default skin you want. Choose ABP and it should load right up for you.