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Originally Posted by cincikat69
Use 7-zip and when you are ready to make the theme zip, just select both the file and folder then right-click and select "add to archive", then type in the name of your theme followed by .ReaperThemeZip and compress...done. No renaming and always works every time.
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Our 7-zip versions might work a bit differently? Here if I add all the files to an archive and name it eg.
My theme.ReaperThemeZip, that's the archive I will get, but it won't work in Reaper. Now, if I name my new archive
My theme.ReaperThemeZip and select zip as the archive format, I will get a file
My theme.ReaperThemeZip.zip. That file will require renaming, removing the last .zip, but it will work in Reaper after that.
I do all my file managing with Total Commander. There handling the theme files is a simple matter of adding or removing period in front of the Zip in the theme name. If I have added the period, Total Commander sees it as a zip package and I can cut, copy, paste, delete, drag and drop files back and forth all I want. Then when I decide to try the theme, I'll remove the period from the theme name and it's back to a regular Reaper theme. Very simple and no danger of double packing or making archives in formats which won't work.
Not to say that this would be any better than other methods, but to remind that regardless of those, checking the file type and renaming might still be needed in the end. This may very well be a bigger problem for the people who don't see the file extensions in whatever file managers they are using.