Tazskool

HOWTO: Install a skin
Added on 19/10/2006 @ 12:32:45
Applies to FM 2007

Football Manager 2007 and later supports installing skins to your own user data folder as well as the shared user data folder on the system. It is recommended that any third party data, such as skins, databases, etc, are installed to the user data folders, as this complies with Microsoft and Apple guidelines in a multi-user environment.

Please refer to INFO: FM2007 Folder Location for details on where various FM2007 folders are located by default, including the possible database folders.

In general you can have a 'skins' folder on three levels:

* Your FM user data folder.
* The shared user data folder.
* The application data folder.

Skins should always be installed to either your own user data folder or the shared user data folder. Users may not have the necessary rights to the folders in the FM2007 installation folder.

* Download the skin you want to install.
* Most likely it will come in a compressed file format, probably as a ZIP file.
* You will need to extact the contents of this file to one of the above 'skins' folders.
* To do this you may need to install a ZIP utility (http://www.7-zip.org/ or http://www.winzip.com/).
* Open the ZIP file, select all folders and files and choose to "Extract to..".
* You should be asked to browse to the folder you want to extract the files to.
* Browse to the "skins" folder in your user data folder (see here for details) and extract the files and folders here.
* Make sure you preserve the paths so that files in sub-folders are extracted into the correct folders (usually this is on by default in most compression/uncompression utilities).
* Usually the compressed file with the skin will have a single sub-folder in the top level, so it uncompresses correctly into a subfolder of the 'skins' folder. If the file does not contain a subfolder that is the name of the skin, then you will need to create a subfolder inside 'skins' manually, and uncompress the contents of the file to this subfolders rather than into the 'skins' folder directly.
* In the the "skins" folder in your user data folder you should have a sub-folder that is the name of the database update you just installed.

Once this is done, you can run FM2007 and select the skin from the "Display & Sounds" section in the game preferences (available from the "Options" menu, or from the "Preferences" button on the main menu).

Tazskool

HOWTO: Change the skin back to default
Added on 08/10/2006 @ 22:19:34
Applies to FM 2007

In some cases it may be helpful to force the skin back to the default skin, such as in situations where a third party skin may be causing problems with the game that stops you from doing so from within the game itself.

1. Use the --reset_preferences command line option

Please refer to how to run the game with command line options document and the FM2007 command line options document for details on running the game with command line options.

If you run the game with the command line option:

--reset_preferences=skin

The game will clear the current skin setting and revert to the default skin for FM2007 (which is Flexion).

2.Other ways of reverting the skin to the default setting

The options described in this document also works for FM2007.

Liverpool Lover

Mine doesn't work i used Winrar to extract files to blah blah and when i go to fm to try it, it does not work what gives?

Tazskool

go into preferences and untick "skin chache" and then try :)

Liverpool Lover

KK done shall i quit and reload game or just go directly there? as it didnt work flexicon And flexicon (right) are still the only options it gives me.

Tazskool

if its a skin you are trying to load then make sure "!alweasy reload skin" is ticked as well...

I havent played about with skins in FM07 as of yet... i have put my skin on hold for a bit

Liverpool Lover

Just trying it now will post if it works and if it doesn't then fuk it.

Liverpool Lover

Yeah still doesn't work maybe i messed it up installing it?