Rainmeter fails if the user sets "My Documents" to the root of a second / external drive in Windows

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"progman" from the forums:
I installed Rainmaker 1.0 on my WindowsXP laptop.  No errors during
installation, but nothing starts, no Rainmaker, nothing.  I start Rainmaker
manually, a message pops up and says: "No available skins at:
H:\\Rainmaker\Skin".  Yes, the 2 backslashes.  I have an external hard
drive that i map my "My Documents" to, that's why it says H, but I don't
know where the 2 slashes came from, I even copied them into the normal My
Documents path.  I have edited the Rainmaker.ini every which way possible,
but it still couldn't find the skins.  When I installed it the first time,
those skins where there, however.  I tried running Rainthemes, it did find
the 3 skins, but nothing loaded.  Per your suggestion in this thread, I
removed it and deleted everything.  I still get the same error starting
Rainmaker, but there are no themes this time, it didn't install them.
What am I missing here???

Response by "jsmorley"
From your symptoms, it's clear that the code for Rainmeter is getting your
path to your Windows "My Documents" directory by parsing the entry for the
drive letter, adding a "\", then the path defined in Windows as "My
Documents" and then putting a "\" and then Rainmeter\Skins

Since you have NO path for your "My Documents", you are getting that "\\"
behavior. Rainmeter is assuming there will be "Documents and
Settings\Yourname\My Documents" (XP) or "Users\Yourname\Documents" (Vista /
Seven) in between those slahes, and while it is correctly making no
assumption about "what" should be in between, it is expecting "some" path.
 I will pass this along to the developers so it can be looked at for the
next release.  I'm afraid that for right now unless you want to change the
path to "My Documents" back to the standard path, or create at least a "My
Documents" folder on H:  Rainmeter is not going to work for you.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jsmor...@gmail.com on 12 Aug 2009 at 4:44

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The thread: http://www.rainmeter.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=972

Original comment by kimmo.pekkola on 12 Aug 2009 at 6:13

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Original comment by kenz0.sa...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2009 at 8:13

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