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stickris:
I cant actually find anything which gives me a step by step or definate procedure for adding a theme, and I've spend the last hour or so adding files here and there to see if they show up on the player to no avail.
I'm using OS X, its an Iriver H10 (20GB) and I want to add this theme: BlackGlass AA50 (fourth one along on here http://www.rockbox-themes.org/index.php?res=160x128x16 ) .

I've read things saying 'extract/expand into the root of the player.  This is a screenshot of what I get on OS X when I look at what I've downloaded.  
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l246/stickris/rockboxstuff.jpg
I'm not sure if its different in windows and comes zipped.  And where is the root of the player?  Is this .rockbox, the folder that .rockbox is in or somewhere else?  I have tried copying the BlackGlass AA50 folder into both these places and nothing has showed up on the player.

Basicaly... what goes where?  I understand that this is a pretty nooby question, but I just cant figure it out.

Domonoky:

As far as i know, this is the fault of mac osx and its unpacker.
Try to download the zip in a way, its not automatically unpacked, (maybe with save as? ) and use another unpacker than the builtin one. Then you should be able to just unpack this zip to your player.

The other way is, to use rbutil (see in the wiki) which can download and install the themes for you.

stickris:
Thanks, that got it downloaded as a zip (using the first method), however I still cant get it to appear on rockbox.  Am I unpacking it into the H10 or the rockbox folder on it?

Febs:

--- Quote from: stickris on January 31, 2008, 05:00:50 PM ---Thanks, that got it downloaded as a zip (using the first method), however I still cant get it to appear on rockbox.  Am I unpacking it into the H10 or the rockbox folder on it?

--- End quote ---

You should be unzipping it directly to the root of the player, which means it should be unzipped to the base folder and not to any other folder on the disk.

I don't use OS X, but I remember from past threads that people who have had difficulty when its native unzip utility had better luck with a program called Onyx.  Try searching the forums for that term.

stickris:
Its alright, got it working with rbutil.  They went straight on.  Thanks for the help.  For future reference for other less experienced people trying this, It might be a good idea if a little paragraph was put at the top of the themes page explaining how to get them on the player.  

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