Check your zip....
No, not your flies....
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 by Jafo | Discussion: Skinning
It's done!!!!
The greatest wall/WB/Screensaver/Logon the world has ever seen is finished!!!
Now, I MUST upload it immediately so all can gasp in wonderment.....
But...
Before you do....have a quick look inside that archive/zip/wba/bootskin/whatever and ask yourself....."are all these files actually necessary?"
Often there will be some 'strays'....left over from a time long-forgotten....or your system had a brain-fart during archiving...and archived an archive....bootskinned a bootskin....or just plain included 'junk' that had no relevance.
Real issue arises when any of that 'junk' is leftovers of something belonging to someone else...and here's you uploading/re-distributing it.....
Ooops.
Often the junk is actually your own [pst files, etc] but its inclusion simply makes the upload/file bigger than is necessary.
Best to check first...and 'keep it clean'...
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Reply #23 Wednesday, March 4, 2009 1:30 AM
o really? i wish i found a ticket to disneyland inside one of those wb
Reply #24 Wednesday, March 4, 2009 3:01 PM
A thumbs.db can contain all sorts of personal stuff.
Reply #25 Wednesday, March 4, 2009 3:20 PM
never thought about thumbs.db or other such files, thanks for the post
Reply #26 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:34 AM
Well, since we're on the subject.........I don't want to seem like an idiot here, because I've been zipping and emailing for years. BUT, I zipped some skins that were the same design but different colors and started to send them and I couldn't figure out how to do it because you enter the file for the JPG. in one spot, and then the Logon file, in another, and I don't know where to put WHAT, and,.....and.......Help!
Where does that one zip get entered???!!!
Reply #27 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:00 PM
If you're uploading to Wincustomize, the zip file goes where the logon file (or theme file) would go. 
Reply #28 Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:05 PM
Where does that one zip get entered???!!!
Most skin 'files' are renamed zip archives...eg .wba, .bootskin, .wsz, etc.
An upload to Wincustomize comprises three things....
1. the 'file' aka [archive] ...either the skin archive format or a zip
2. a preview image/screenshot .... in jpg format
and
3. A description of 'what it is'....
Reply #29 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:29 PM
ROFL......Sometimes I don't know "what it is" I've made!
I just try to come up with a name that it might be,....like in the Inkblot Test!
But thanks for the info, ....zip in the logon box, and the Jpg and such as usual, right?
Reply #30 Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:11 PM
Actually, I inspired this thread. I just don't understand how nekkie pics of Al Roker got onto my computer to begin with.
Reply #34 Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:40 PM
It's not a bikini. It's lingerie.
Reply #35 Thursday, March 26, 2009 6:17 PM
Reply #36 Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:50 PM
/ Ahhh!!! me stabs a fork in to his eyes...
Reply #37 Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:08 PM
*Bumpty-dy-bump*
Time to remind people of this, again.
Check, doublecheck and re-check your files before uploading.
That goes for the WindowBlinds skinners, especially if you've built you skin based on another skin.
It is imparative that you make sure that no files from the base skin are zipped along when packing up the skin.
Secondly, and this goes for everytime anyone of you zip a WB for uploading; remove any and all temp files that are in the archive, and they ARE there!
They can cause the skin to not install properly or not apply properly - we've seen it so friggin many times.
What files to look out for: Any file with '~' in the extension. Eks: "ShellStyle.xps~" - "skinname.uis~" and all "*.wb4" as well.
Take special care to remove the .uis~. It's a down right focker.
We've seen it many times that the .uis~ file is named differently from the actual .uis - 'askin.uis' and 'anotherskin.uis~' and that appears to cause all sorts of havoc when installing/applying the skin.
So, please do this every time. It makes life so much easier for us (the mods), and the users.
(Dunno why SKS does this..... I bet Neil just wanna make our lives miserable)
One other thing. Please don't re-zip .wba files. It's nonsense and a waste of time, both for the mods and those who download your skins.
If you have some extra files that goes with the skin like permission texts, wallpapers etc etc, just slap'em inside the .wba.
Reply #38 Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:17 PM
...and always clean your WB of unnecessary images and temp and backup folders before creating your .wba in SkinStudio too. 
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Reply #21 Tuesday, March 3, 2009 11:54 PM
sometime also include png, psd and bak file. alot of bak file