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Originally Posted by Cootey
Maybe I wasn’t being clear. Instructions online tell one to unarchive the contents of the FW zip file into .kobo, but that sticks a folder which contains the update files into .kobo—which the Kobo consequently ignores. One needs to move the contents of the zipped folder into .kobo.
It’s been so long since I’ve manually updated that I can’t remember there being containing folders holding the upgrade files. Understand my question now?
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Odd. I've never seen a directory with the KoboRoot.tgz file in it in a Kobo firmware update archive. It's always been KoboRoot.tgz, manifest.md5sum and the upgrade directory. At least that is the case with the older firmware .zip file I still have around (kobo-update-2.5.0 from April, 2013).
I open the archive with 7Zip and drag the 2 files and the directory into the .kobo directory on the connected ereader and it just works. I've also used 7Zip's extract option and browsing to the .kobo directory as the destinanation and again it worked without issue other than more clicks. If I extract the items into a directory on my computer and copied the contents of the directory to the .kobo directory, again no issues.
Now if I copy the directory in which I extracted the files to the .kobo directory on my ereader, it will not work since the update process is triggered by seeing very specific filenames in the root of the .kobo directory. You will need KoboRoot.tgz (or it's cousins) to trigger the update process. Part of the update process which will look for the files listed in the manifest.md5sum list for any kernel/hardware/other Linux bits. Those files in the upgrade directory must have the same MD5 sum as listed in the manifest.md5sum directory.
May I ask what operating system you are using that does not allow you to copy the contents of a .zip archive directly to the .kobo directory on your ereader?