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Originally Posted by MiuMiu
My .kobo folder on mac has the following contents - is anything missing, should I put something somewhere else? The instructions state I should put files like this in the .kobo folder...
Image of the .kobo folder:
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Two questions come to mind. One being that you do not put the koboupdate-x-xx-xxxxx.zip file on your ereader as a .zip file. You unpack the upgrade directory and the manifest.md5sum and KoboRoot.tgz files and place though in the .kobo directory on your ereader.
The second is why you are placing the patch files on your Kobo ereader.
Download the kobopatch_4.20.14622.zip file and extract the files in it to a directory/folder on your Mac (I use kobopatch as the directory name). Download but do not extract the kobo-update-4.20.14622.zip file ( see
Kobo Firmware Downloads for links) and place it in the src directory inside the kobopatch directory. For the purposes of patching, the hardware revision of the downloaded update file does not matter though I generally prefer to grab on corresponding to a Kobo ereader I'm using.
Edit the yaml file for the patches you want to install changing no to yes for the patches you want to install.
Run kobopatch.sh. My personal preference is to open terminal, cd to the kobopatch directory and use ./kobopatch.sh to execute the file. The first time I run it, it fails and I have to allow it to run from Security and Privacy in System Preferences. The second time, it whines but I can allow it to run. After that, just run it.
If it completes successfully, a KoboRoot.tgz and log.txt file will be found in the out directory. Copy the KoboRoot.tgz file to the .kobo directory on your Kobo ereader
One caution is that MacOS has the habit of attempting to unpack .zip files for you.
I've attached an image of the VM Mac desktop with the kobopatch, KoboEreader and terminal window open. I don't own a Mac, I just run Macs in virtual machines. Much cheaper and easier to cart around than 9 or 10 real computers.