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Old 03-06-2014, 03:11 PM   #2
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To summarize:

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Originally Posted by knc1 View Post
Ah, let me see if I understand what you are doing:

1) Remove any FILE named 'update.bin.tmp.partial' in the root of the visible USB storage area.

2) Create a DIRECTORY of the same name: 'update.bin.tmp.partial' in the root of the visible USB storage area.

Your presumption being that the update download continuation code can not recover from that change (since to remove a directory under *nix is a different command than to remove a file).
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