- Status Closed
- Percent Complete
- Task Type Bugs
- Category Rbutil
- Assigned To No-one
- Operating System All players
- Severity Low
- Priority Very Low
- Reported Version Daily build (which?)
- Due in Version Undecided
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Due Date
Undecided
- Votes
- Private
FS#9474 - Rbutil fails when a ".rockbox" file exists on the player
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.
Closed by Domonoky
2009-05-09 23:56
Reason for closing: Wont Fix
Additional comments about closing:
2009-05-09 23:56
Reason for closing: Wont Fix
Additional comments about closing:
as long as it failes with a error
message, this isnt a bug.
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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?
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.
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.