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Having some issues installing...this is weird.

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GodEater:
I take it you're an OSX user then knight4led ?

Could you enlighten those of us who don't use it as to why so many of our Mac based brethren seem to find their zip utility creating a "rockbox" folder to put the ".rockbox" folder inside? Have you seen this yourself ?

ledhed2222:
I got it, albiet by cheating a little.  I setup rockbox on a Windows machine.  Thanks!

knight4led:
Yes I am a Mac OSX user.

One major issue I see that faces Mac users is hidden files. Mac will not allow you to create any file that is hidden unless you are authenticated as an admin user, which basically means that directly creating the .rockbox folder from the zip application without putting it in another folder is a major annoyance.

I avoid that problem altogether by using the Terminal which basically works just like any*NIX system.

-first things first I copy the zip of my build to the root of my iPod.
-Next I open the terminal and type cd ../../Volumes/NAME (where NAME is my iPod's name)
-third I type sudo rm -R .rockbox to get rid of the old .rockbox folder
-then I type unzip BUILDNAME.zip (where BUILDNAME is the filename)
-finally rm -BUILDNAME.zip
-then I close up terminal and I'm happy

I have a few other tricks up my sleeve though, one is that OnyX has an option to show hidden files and folders for objects in the dock, so when I connect my iPod I drag it into the dock, which allows me to long click on it and gain access to the .rockbox folder without having to open OnyX everytime and enable/disable view hidden files.

Chronon:
I have had renaming issues in Windows too.  Though, not unzipping issues.  I have found, similarly, that doing it through the shell works for naming a folder ".rockbox".

GodEater:
Indeed - Windows Explorer will not allow you to name files that start with a ".", though as you found, the command prompt has no such qualms.

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