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FS#9474 - Rbutil fails when a ".rockbox" file exists on the player

Attached to Project: Rockbox
Opened by Luke Faraone (lfaraone) - Saturday, 11 October 2008, 12:56 GMT
Last edited by Dominik Wenger (Domonoky) - Saturday, 09 May 2009, 23:56 GMT
Task Type Bugs
Category Rbutil
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Operating System All players
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version Daily build (which?)
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Steps to reproduce:
1) Set the target (in the qt gui) to a otherwise empty folder with a .rockbox file in it.
2) Click "Install Rockbox"

A "cannot create directory" error is given.

Ideally, rockbox would detect that there is a file there, as it currently does if you have a directory there.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Dominik Wenger (Domonoky)
Saturday, 09 May 2009, 23:56 GMT
Reason for closing:  Wont Fix
Additional comments about closing:  as long as it failes with a error message, this isnt a bug.
Comment by Paul Louden (Llorean) - Saturday, 11 October 2008, 13:20 GMT
If there's a .rockbox folder, the utility can add its files to it non-destructively (making the assumption that any duplicate files are meant to be overwritten).

If a file, .rockbox, exists the utility probably shouldn't overwrite it because it's probably there for a reason. It's not the same situation.

Is the bug the fact that the utility doesn't destroy files in its way, or what?
Comment by Luke Faraone (lfaraone) - Saturday, 11 October 2008, 13:25 GMT
Well, in the directory case, a prompt is given asking if the old .rockbox directory should be archived or removed.

This problem confused me for a while, since my disk had filesystem errors, and after running checkdisk the OS replaced the corrupted .rockbox directory with a binary file of what it could recover.

So, yes, it would have been nice for a prompt to appear asking if the file could be removed.
Comment by Jonas Häggqvist (rasher) - Thursday, 11 December 2008, 18:30 GMT
I don't think the Rockbox Utility should be doing this. At the most, it could say "cannot create directory - a file named .rockbox already exists" instead, but I think this could be closed as well.

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