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The "My ipod install went wrong" Thread. **Updated 6th Aug 2007**
me:
no I haven't dropped it at all, although it did freeze a few times when I was snowboarding, it was about -25 c, it never seemed to do any harm at the time when i warmed it back up it worked fine. it did however have a problem when uploading songs with itunes after this when i got home, it would get half way through updating and just stop? it is a few years old so maybe its just the ipod has packed up?
GodEater:
Yeah, I think being frozen and then unfrozen is probably not a good thing to have happen to your ipod - it may have affected the distance between the drive heads and the platter and caused some minor corruption on the disk. You could try using iTunes to do a restore on your iPod (make sure your music is backed up properly though) and see if that helps. Otherwise it sounds like you may need a new hard drive for your iPod.
me:
I'll try an update with itunes again, but i thought that it may be broke, thanks for your help, lets hope I can get it working alright! cheers now
coldman64:
OK, after carefully reading the installation instructions for RB on my 1gen ipod nano, all it did was go into the apple logo and stay there for 5 min.
I managed to totally undo everything and afer carefully reading the instructions once more, i noticed that the folder that was supposed to be in the ipod root is .rockbox.
I put the folder back into the ipod and windows refuses to name the folder .rockbox and correcting it back to rockbox without the period.
WTF is wrong with my computer and how do i get around it?
GodEater:
Windows explorer won't let you name something that starts with a '.' character.
You shouldn't *have* to rename it though if you used one of the recommended unzip tools since they extract it to that name for you.
If you're using some dreadful tool which is renaming it to something else though, the best way to get it back to ".rockbox" is to use the command prompt. (See the first post in this thread for a guide on how to use it if you're not familiar with it).
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