I thought I made that mistake also , but noSounds like you've installed Rainmeter as portable. Am I right, did you install it this way?
I do not have one drive enabled , it is not uninstalled but all startups and services for it are turned off.Out of curiosity and to take as many possibilities into account, do you by any chance have OneDrive (or whatever that MS cloud is called) installed / enabled? The folders / files that should have gone to the local Documents might have been redirected to the OneDrive location. I didn't experience it myself, but there were some posts about that in the past on the forum (too lazy to use the Search button to find them at the moment).
EDIT: Alright, brushed off the laziness and here is the result (I only included SilverAzide as Author cause I distinctly remember him mentioning this as well):
https://forum.rainmeter.net/search.php?keywords=onedrive&terms=all&author=SilverAzide&sc=1&sf=all&sr=posts&sk=t&sd=d&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search
Or, even more specific:
https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=41900
Not sure if it helps, but hey, it's the first among the few potential culprits for this I could think of.
Initially the cmd prompt in the second link you provided did not work, what wound up getting it working for me is I completely removed Rainmeter 4.5.18, installed version 3.3.3 , ran the cmd prompt .... still no joy , then I installed version 4.5.18 on top of it, all of a sudden the documents folder appeared and the file association started working ..... go figure
Thanks for the help guys!
Statistics: Posted by DrkKnight — Yesterday, 5:03 am