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CharlieSummers:
I read the manual, checked FAQs, searched the forums, and didn't find the answer...

I have one device set up the way I want it. I have four other devices in the same family (two are identical, two are a different version of the device) I want set up the same; same themes, same settings. Is there a simple way to do this within the Rockbox Utility, or an easy way to copy themes (which appear to have pieces spread out all over the filesystem) and settings (which seem pretty straightforward) to a group of devices?

Chronon:
Save the settings on one player and use that same .cfg file on the other players.

CharlieSummers:
Thanks for the reply!


--- Quote from: Chronon on November 23, 2011, 08:44:10 PM ---Save the settings on one player and use that same .cfg file on the other players.

--- End quote ---

Yes, as I mentioned that seemed pretty straightforward, but that doesn't help with themes - I need the theme collection to be placed on all of the devices as well. And they seem to have pieces all over the place.

Chronon:
The themes come in a zip archive.  You can download it and extract it to each player and everything will end up where it belongs. 

Rockbox Utility is also a convenient way of downloading a set of themes to a given player.

CharlieSummers:

--- Quote from: Chronon on November 23, 2011, 08:55:58 PM ---Rockbox Utility is also a convenient way of downloading a set of themes to a given player.

--- End quote ---

No, it really isn't.

If you have one player, picking and choosing from a lengthy list of themes while patiently waiting for the thing to pull the previews is fine - it's how I set up the original device. But I now know which themes need to be on all the players, and option-clicking on that list in the Utility for each player would be a royal pain. Perhaps if the Utility allowed for storing "favorites" it would be a convenient way to load four additional players with the same themes, but as it stands it is probably the least efficient way to set up multiple devices identically. I understand it was never designed for multiple-device synchronization, which is why I discounted it as a method pretty quickly.

Also remember I need an efficient way to quickly reload the theme/config sets when one of the target users (who are not at all computer-literate) trashes the main theme or sets the font size to something too small or large to read.

(*sigh*) I may just try creating a folder containing the backdrops/doom/fonts/icons/rocks/themes/wps folders from the "master" device along with config.cfg and see if that gets everything...if it does, I can write a shell script or bat file to auto-reload. Because there are two different hardware revisions, I can't just drop the entire .rockbox folder, darnitall.

Edit: Ok, first big mistake, including the rocks folder. The files therein are clearly hardware-version-dependent.

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