how to change skins? (1 Viewer)

[creekguy]

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Hi, I would like to change the MP skin to the "GATE skin"
But even though it shows up in the files of skins,only The default blue and wide blue, are showing as options to change to.
How do I get MP to show the new skin as an option and change to it?
thanks

 

[cheezey]

Can you confirm you can see:

C:\Program Files\Team Mediaportal\Mediaportal\skin\Gate\references.xml

and not

C:\Program Files\Team Mediaportal\Mediaportal\skin\references.xml (missing skin name subfolder)

or

C:\Program Files\Team Mediaportal\Mediaportal\skin\Gate\Gate\references.xml (double skin name subfolder).

 

[creekguy]

C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin
that is what I see when I right click on the gate skin folder and folder for skins.

 

[cheezey]

MP should display the skin for selection if it detects C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\Gate\references.xml

Can you run the following in a command prompt and reply with the results:

dir "C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin" /AD /B /S

 

[creekguy]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Pete>dir "C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPorta
l\Skin" /AD /B /S
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\BlueTwo
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\BlueTwo wide
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\Gate
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\BlueTwo\fonts
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\BlueTwo\Media
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\BlueTwo\Sounds
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\BlueTwo\Media\Animations
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\BlueTwo\Media\Tetris
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\BlueTwo wide\Media
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\BlueTwo wide\Sounds
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\BlueTwo wide\Media\Animations

C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\BlueTwo wide\Media\Tetris
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\Gate\Gate
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\Gate\Gate\fonts
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\Gate\Gate\Media
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\Gate\Gate\Sounds
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\Gate\Gate\Media\Animations
C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\Gate\Gate\Media\Tetris

C:\Documents and Settings\Pete>

C:\Documents and Settings\Pete>

C:\Documents and Settings\Pete>

 

[cheezey]

C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\Gate\Gate

There's your problem, you have got the gate skin folder repeated, you've extracted the gate skin into C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\Gate instead of C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\

Best thing is to delete the Gate folder altogether and then UNRAR the skin into C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\

 

[creekguy]

C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\Gate\Gate

There's your problem, you have got the gate skin folder repeated, you've extracted the gate skin into C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\Gate instead of C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\

Best thing is to delete the Gate folder altogether and then UNRAR the skin into C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Skin\

yes Have done what you said and the gate skin now shows up,but minus the star gate animation?
**meanwhile ever since getting the tv to show, MP keeps coming up with an unhandled error message,and I have to reboot to regain computer.