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Rockbox small question etc
ThaCrip:
first of all i want to say thanks to the developers! this is a great app/firmware and i just got my Sansa e250 2GB player today from ebay (i made sure it was a v1 before i ordered) for 47 dollars out the door.
it's great to have a firmware for a mp3 player device that's not handicaped! , as this is what manufacturers SHOULD give the people who buy there MP3 players instead of the shaft.
but now that i got that out of the way i have a small question...
can i delete ALL the files on the 2GB partition? (well, delete everything besides the .rockbox folder of course ) cause i see music etc etc folders that are there or does the original sandisk firmware need those?
thanks for your time ;)
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p.s. the volume output is MUCH better on this e250 vs my old mp3 player (RCA 2010A 128MB internal) which was crap compared to this as i got a major upgrade ... and 45kbps encoded .ogg files are a huge plus! as there sound quality is quite good considering how low the bit rate is and it's even arguable that it sound at least as good as 128kbps MP3's give or take a little which aint bad at all
p.s. it was also a accident how i found out about Rockbox in the first place as i was just looking into possibly getting a new mp3 player and just checking prices on newegg.com etc and starting reading reviews on the sansa e250 etc and happening to see something about something called 'rockbox' and they said the v2 dont support it etc so i went to google and searched for rockbox and ran into this website and i was like hell yeah i gotta get one that supports this so then i looked into the details on how to run it and found out i needed a v1 player so i went to ebay and found one at a reasonable price and then emailed the guy and asked him if it was a v1 or v2 and it was a v1 and then BAM i choose 'buy it now'
Strife89:
I'm using a c250, but our situations should pretty much be the same:
Every time you boot to the OF, I believe it will recreate the folders if they do not exist. So deleting them is a waste of time (since you have to boot to the OF to transfer music or charge the battery right now).
Nevertheless, I'm pretty sure you can safely delete the following folders. Make sure there's nothing inside of them if you do (i.e., music, photos) DO NOT FORMAT THE PARTITION!!!!
-MUSIC
-PHOTO
-PLAYLISTS
-RECORD
-tmp
(Don't delete the file(s) in the root, which should be something like "VERSION.TXT". Also, do not delete the folder called SYSTEM.)
ThaCrip:
thanks for the reply Strife89 ... before i read your post i deleted all the stuff on the main fat32 2GB partition. BUT i kept a backup of all the files i deleted on my pc and just restored the parts you said to not delete.
also i thought the 'format' wont hurt it as long as you dont format (or in general dont touch) the 20MB partition where the bios files are? ... cause i was talking strictly about files on the 2GB main data storage section.... i did not format anything though but i was just trying to clear stuff up.
so far, so good... rockbox working great! :)
bascule:
--- Quote from: Strife89 on June 10, 2008, 10:12:38 PM ---Every time you boot to the OF, I believe it will recreate the folders if they do not exist. So deleting them is a waste of time (since you have to boot to the OF to transfer music or charge the battery right now).
--- End quote ---
Yes, it will recreate them, but IMHO it's not a waste of time to delete them, as they annoy me intensely >:(
You can configure the disktidy plugin to delete the extra files. Unfortunately, the config instuctions are not in the manual, but I'll post them if you want.
--- Quote from: Strife89 on June 10, 2008, 10:12:38 PM ---Nevertheless, I'm pretty sure you can safely delete the following folders. Make sure there's nothing inside of them if you do (i.e., music, photos) DO NOT FORMAT THE PARTITION!!!!
-MUSIC
-PHOTO
-PLAYLISTS
-RECORD
-tmp
(Don't delete the file(s) in the root, which should be something like "VERSION.TXT". Also, do not delete the folder called SYSTEM.)
--- End quote ---
Again, I happily delete all those plus the VERSION.TXT file and the SYSTEM folder and it continues to work fine for me...
AlexP:
As Bascule, I deleted everything non Rockbox or music (including system, version.txt etc.) and it still works fine.
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