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Offline Yateball

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Firmware to 5.5 80gb question
« on: July 02, 2007, 08:54:38 PM »
Hello, I am attempting to extract the contents of the rockbox.zip to my iPod as indicated in the manual.

When I try to put it into the root folder of the iPod I get a message saying "You cannot use a name that begins with a dot ".", because those names are reserved for the system"

Can someone please help me?

Thanks
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Offline betamaxman

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Re: Firmware to 5.5 80gb question
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2007, 09:08:01 PM »
When you are extracting, what exactly is the destination that you brows to then extract? 8-)
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Offline Yateball

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Re: Firmware to 5.5 80gb question
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2007, 09:10:13 PM »
was trying to extract to just the top level directory where calendars, contacts, and notes resided.... I realize now that i need to find the root folder

however i can't figure out how to make the root folder show up (kind of new to macs)

any more help would be appreciated

EDIT: Got the hidden files to show, got boot loader to install.... now getting "No partition found"!
Help please
« Last Edit: July 02, 2007, 09:32:39 PM by Yateball »
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Offline Febs

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Re: Firmware to 5.5 80gb question
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2007, 10:22:24 AM »
Quote from: Yateball on July 02, 2007, 09:10:13 PM
was trying to extract to just the top level directory where calendars, contacts, and notes resided.... I realize now that i need to find the root folder

That IS the root folder.

I'm not a Mac user, but it's my understanding that Macs choke on folders that start with a "."  You might have better luck using the Rockbox Utility to install Rockbox:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome?topic=RockboxUtility

Alternately, there are Mac utilities that will unzip the build properly, which you can find by searching the forums.  I wanted to say that one of them is called "Onyx" but I could be wrong.
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Re: Firmware to 5.5 80gb question
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2007, 05:25:16 PM »
I think everything works properly if you do it from the command line.
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