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Originally posted by stuartbennett
ok well i do srta see where you coming from but some food for thought, since uninstalling everything related to messenger and reinstalling i tried reimported my own skin using the exact same file i sent to the database back in april that wasnt downloaded from net i created it
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if i rename to a .zip file and paste the extracted folder into the messenger plus live skins directory the skin will work it just wont work with a .plsk extension
This very vital information makes the situation different and already way more clear than before.
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Originally posted by stuartbennett
im running vista with sp1 and have installed all updates, the issue occured out of the blue i only noticed it after the release of willz's batman skin but the last major change to plus that was rather recent was the installation of plus live 4.60.326, uninstalling 326 and reverting to 324 doesnt fix it but without formatting my pc and clean installing 324 i cant be 100% sure
Again, formatting will not fix any issues Plus! would have. Reinstalling an older version of Plus! will be more than sufficient to make sure you have the old version of Plus!. You could even manully delete all the files of Plus! in its installation directory (and the msimg32.dll) for that matter and be sure that everything of the Plus! program is removed. Because Plus! will not put any files on your HDD outside its installation directory (except for user data like sounds files and maybe log files, but those user files have got no influence at all on the installation). The same goes for the registry settings....
In short, if you reinstall build 324 over 326, you'll have 324.
As such:
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Originally posted by stuartbennett
for now 326 seems the logical cause of the issue i just dont know what it is in 326 that causes the issue specifically.
326 is not the cause since you say you also have it when build 324 is installed.
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Btw: I assume that if you manually try to import the skin you'll get the same error? By manual importing I mean executing MPTools.exe with the proper parameters:
MPTools.exe /ImportSkin="C:\blablah\theskin.plsk"
(mind the quotes)
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