Theme fails to load if Theme\Substyle & File names add up to long string name

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I noticed skin studio fails to load a skin properly if your theme name + Substyle Name + Image file names add up to a long string. The theme name is just "Creative Cloud" and each substyle is named fairly short. File names are also not super long (last image on the bottom of this post) If I make changes to one of the sections names to be slightly shorter, those sections will load. If you need the theme file to see in first hand you can email me or DrJBHL for the theme file.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. I have forwarded your problem/question to Stardock Support Team for their assistance. Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates. We appreciate your feedback and patience.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

I believe any image paths are limited to 60 chars including skin name.  This is a legacy of earlier versions and wishing to keep memory usage of the block files down.  Increasing this to 260 (standard file path limit) would probably increase those by 4x.

The other issue for you may be the OS 260 char limit for the entire path to a file.  This will include the path to your skins folder.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Skin studio should just truncate the file names to be as small as possible when importing if that's the case. (the uis/sss files should never be the full theme name). I can get them to go by cc1,cc2 etc... if I rename substyles to single numbers 1-6 and then clone the theme to a small name.

Or add some sort of way to rename the uis/sss through skin studio so I dont have to jump through hoops just to get it to load.