unhiding music folder in linux

[blackthunder]

I booted to the original firmware the other day, which caused my music folder to become hidden. Normally this isn't a problem but I recently switched to linux and I don't know how to make the folder unhidden for rockbox. (i know about the show files all option, but I like having some folders hidden)

anyone know how I can change the status of the folder without conecting to a windows computer?

[Jonno12345]

chmod -h /folder/

[caramelsoul]

Im a n00b at Linux but does Ctrl+H not show all hidden folders?

[Jonno12345]

On his comp, sure, but it won't make any difference on his player.

[caramelsoul]

Ah, i see. I didnt fully understand the problem.

Weird though as my H320 and H140 didnt have any problems with that.

[druidfire217]

I believe it is because your earlier players do not automatically hide the system folders when booted into the OF. H10, for some reason known only to the developers, does.

[Jonno12345]

To make life slightly harder, of course .

[blackthunder]

So the chmod will not work for me on my girlfriends mac, I haven't had the time to try it on my comp at home yet.

But yes the problem is not the folder being hidden on my computer, I just want to unhide to to the H10

edit: the chmod -h says invalid command in ubuntu

[Angryman_H10]

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

Will show the hidden files on Mac... Set TRUE to FALSE wo hide them again

ls -a

Will temporarily show the hidden files in the shell

[blackthunder]

the problem is not that I can't see the files, they are not hidden to me on the cpu.

The problem is that rockbox can not see the folder unless i select view all files. I want to be able to set it to view supported files and it will still see the music folder.

In windows I could right click and unselect the hidden box. Linux/Ubuntu doesn't see the file as hidden, but rockbox does.

[Jonno12345]

Open Terminal
type cd /media/H10/Media (Or wherever your H10 is mounted)
type chmod -h ./Music


Not sure if it needs a root priveledge or not, but try it.

[Naegling23]

in short, you cannot unhide the .rockbox folder in linux.

In linux, any file with a "." in front of it is treated as hidden. If you rename the folder rockbox, then the system will not work, because it is looking for .rockbox. So, here is the solution. In your file manager simply select view hidden files (its under view for konqueror/dolphin, im not sure where it is for nautalus). Also, if your file manager allows you to manually enter a location, you can do that, "device_name/.rockbox should be it.

Hope this helps.

oh, you said your music folder was hidden...um, there are two ways to do this, one is show hidden files, and rename it (the easy way). The other way is in the terminal, using the rename command, which I think is rn ( i dont have my linux command cheat sheet on me, so do not use that command, google first to make sure)

[Jonno12345]

Naegling, not entirely true information. Any file with a . preceding it is hidden, yes, however anything with a hidden attribute is also classed as hidden.

His problem isn't the inability to see hidden files on his computer, but that Rockbox will not show a hidden folder whilst in 'Supported Files' mode. The reason it is hidden in the first place, is that the OF gives the music folder the Hidden attribute when booted. Renaming (Which, by the way, is the mv command) won't help, as the music folder isn't preceded by a ., rather granted a hidden attribute.

My method above your post removes the hidden attribute from a file or folder.

[blackthunder]

on my ubuntu system the chmod command did not work, I don't remember the error it gave me. On the mac I've been using it gave me a different error. I solved the problem by just making a new folder. But it seems odd that you can't change that windows hidden attribute using linux based system.

[Jonno12345]

You can, and chmod would be the tool to do it. It may have needed sudo privileges, I'm not on my linux box at the moment. Ah well, it's solved now.