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Originally Posted by davidfor
If you didn't see the files and folders, then you were looking at the wrong time. The time to look is after the Kobo desktop has done its thing and before ejecting the device. If you eject, the files get processed and the device is updated. If you remove them and eject, no update is done. If you put other versions on in their place, the update is to that version.
Looking at my copies of the firmware, the 3.0.0 and 3.0.1 upgrades for the Touch only had the "KoboRoot.tgz" and "manifest.md5sum" files. And the latter might not have been used by the update using the Kobo desktop.
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I'm not doubting what you are saying, but I did look at the files inside the .kobo folder during the whole process. At no time did I see any other files other than the "KoboRoot.tgz" file, even after it was done updating. I did not eject, I just closed the desktop application and examined the files inside the .kobo folder.
I will work up the nerve to try again, I am pretty much resigned to having to get a Kindle this new year sometime anytway, particularly if it refused to do the paperclip/home reset if borked.
If I cannot get it to update that way, how would I do the update from 1.9.6 (which is still pretty good firmware although it takes FOREVER to process files and I can't read and charge) to 2.4.0 modifying the database so I don't have to log in? DO I modify the file before I eject from the machine? DO I just drag all the contents of the .zip file to the .kobo folder using 1.9.6 or do I have to do something else?
3.X.X just killed the Kobo, "critical failure".