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Sansa e250 Having trouble finishing install

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bluebrother:
It's possible autodetection got confused because you (probably) installed the main build to a wrong volume. Please verify if there is a folder ".rockbox" (note the leading dot, which is important) on the player. You should also check other volumes for that folder -- I won't be surprised if it ended up on the wrong volume. Note that filenames starting with a dot are hidden per default on Linux and OS X.

tom a:

I opened each volume in the finder (HD, sansa e260, rbutilqt) and used the "Go" tab on the menu bar and "Go to folder..." and tried /.rockbox, .rockbox, and /rockbox and it's nowhere to be found.  Is that how you look for it?

bluebrother:
Yes. Use the manual installation tab in Rockbox Utility and install a build. Make sure the player is selected correctly. Afterwards it should work.

tom a:
Do you mean the tab that's labelled "Installation" instead of "Quick Start"?  What do you mean by "install a build"?  I don't know what a build is...

I tried the "Change" button to the top right of the utility and selected the volume entitled "Sansa e260 1" (because this one looked had the white drive icon instead of the folder icon labeled "Sansa e260", which had been selected before... maybe there were two volumes because I connected my player after having clicked on the "Change" button?)  I tried adding "/.rockbox", ".rockbox", and "/rockbox" to the end of the address and for each of these the utility gave me a warning message that the mountpoint does not exist.  Also, I don't see any icons for a .rockbox folder in the "browse" function of the configuration window that came up when I clicked "Change".  I tried installing again, anyway, since this time I thought maybe something would be different if I had selected the "Sansa e260 1" drive instead of the "Sansa e260" folder, but, alas, I ran into the same old problem.

Thanks for trying to help me, bluebrother.  :)  And of course more attempts would be much appreciated.

Chronon:
Tom,

Installing a build is simply a matter of extracting an archive to the root of your player.  If you manually download a rockbox.zip from the current build page you should find a directory named .rockbox inside of it (it might be hidden, so enable viewing hidden files).  This directory needs to be written to the root of your player.  If you're going to extract make sure the archiving program doesn't extract to a separate folder.  You should be able to verify afterward that the directory is in the correct place.

(Compiling, linking, etc. is referred to as "building" the firmware.  A "build" is a firmware corresponding to a particular instance of the source code.  You can find a current build for your player by following the appropriately named link in the side bar.)

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