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Signing the update.zip in Mac OS X?

I'm sure this has been asked before but after prolific searching of the forums and our friend Google I turn to you guys for help. As the title says I'm using OS X and I need a solution (that isn't dual booting to use XP) to signing the update.zip so that I can customise aspects of my ROM, I'm very eager to learn how to do this and this so far seems to be quite an annoying problem.
Thanks for your time in advance

tristyB said:
I'm sure this has been asked before but after prolific searching of the forums and our friend Google I turn to you guys for help. As the title says I'm using OS X and I need a solution (that isn't dual booting to use XP) to signing the update.zip so that I can customise aspects of my ROM, I'm very eager to learn how to do this and this so far seems to be quite an annoying problem.
Thanks for your time in advance
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pm me............

korndub said:
pm me............
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Hi korndub,
Cannot you post the answer here so everybody that uses OS X can also sign?
I'm also having problems signing full roms (update.zip files) with signapk.jar
Any help is appreciated

rommelin said:
Hi korndub,
Cannot you post the answer here so everybody that uses OS X can also sign?
I'm also having problems signing full roms (update.zip files) with signapk.jar
Any help is appreciated
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i have a folder on the desktop which contains the signapk.jar and both sets of keys...put the Archive.zip that you have created and want to sign in this folder, then open terminal
in terminal, you type
$cd FOLDER-containing-files
$java -jar signapk.jar testkeys.x509.pem testkey.pk8 Inputfile.zip outputfile.zip
the outputfile.zip is your update which is signed....

OK, I do all that I think.
Heres my process.
Download ROM
Extract downloaded zip to folder eg update
Make changes to files
Compress folder back to zip eg update1.zip
java -jar signapk.jar testkeys.x509.pem testkey.pk8 update1.zip update_signed.zip
rename and copy the signed file to sd
reboot recovery
wipe and apply update
It doesn't moan about the signing (so I assume its ok) but I get an update script not found error and it doesn't install.
I haven't changed the update scripts, only the boot.img and one or two scripts in system.
Does every file I change have to be resigned as well? I muct be missing something here
on OSX 10.5

Signing has nothing to do with that error. Make sure that the update-script is in the correct path.
META-INF/com/google/android/update-script

it is, is a normal update.zip (ie cyanogen rom), and the only file I've changed is boot.img and a2sd in system/bin

i have a folder on the desktop which contains the signapk.jar and both sets of keys...put the Archive.zip that you have created and want to sign in this folder, then open terminal
in terminal, you type
$cd FOLDER-containing-files
$java -jar signapk.jar testkeys.x509.pem testkey.pk8 Inputfile.zip outputfile.zip
the outputfile.zip is your update which is signed....
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Thank you so much, this works for me, I might try and build it into an automator workflow
Edit: I spoke too soon, I get the update script error also
Edit Again: my update-script is in the same place as it should be also

Wonder if this is a specific OSX problem? We do have apples 'interpretation' of java don't we?

dazcox5181 said:
Wonder if this is a specific OSX problem? We do have apples 'interpretation' of java don't we?
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haha, yeah that's right, those crazy cats at Apple. but I assume that korndub also has Apples 'interptretation' so something else could be the problem also

perhaps the way we zip the archive?

dazcox5181 said:
perhaps the way we zip the archive?
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sadly not, I just used a application that zips in a PC format (without mac hidden files) and no joy. Good idea though.
Edit: Just tried archiving the zip but not compressing. Thought I was on to something. I wasn't.

Another update, I have tried the same in Fedora 11 and again, getting the update script error message when I flash.

I signed modified update for 3 different builds on my Mac, everything worked w/o problems every time. I did everything like described in readme and several times here. So, it's not a global OS X problem.
BTW, I used muCommander to directly modify all zips.

neuro159 said:
I signed modified update for 3 different builds on my Mac, everything worked w/o problems every time. I did everything like described in readme and several times here. So, it's not a global OS X problem.
BTW, I used muCommander to directly modify all zips.
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When I find the time later on I will give the muCommander a go. Fingers crossed.

dazcox5181 said:
OK, I do all that I think.
Heres my process.
Download ROM
Extract downloaded zip to folder eg update
Make changes to files
Compress folder back to zip eg update1.zip
java -jar signapk.jar testkeys.x509.pem testkey.pk8 update1.zip update_signed.zip
rename and copy the signed file to sd
reboot recovery
wipe and apply update
It doesn't moan about the signing (so I assume its ok) but I get an update script not found error and it doesn't install.
I haven't changed the update scripts, only the boot.img and one or two scripts in system.
Does every file I change have to be resigned as well? I muct be missing something here
on OSX 10.5
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you dont archive (zip) the folder, this is where you are having the issue... say you extracted the rom to ROMFOLDER, what you need to do is go into that folder, select all, then right click or two finger click and choose Compress - you will end up with an archive that contains all sub folders, if you zip the folder then you have a folder within a folder and that is where all goes south..

korndub said:
you dont archive (zip) the folder, this is where you are having the issue... say you extracted the rom to ROMFOLDER, what you need to do is go into that folder, select all, then right click or two finger click and choose Compress - you will end up with an archive that contains all sub folders, if you zip the folder then you have a folder within a folder and that is where all goes south..
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Oh my god, you're right. And I think I actually read that somewhere before now you've reminded me. Damn. Thanks though! Thanks a lot!

Awesome, knew it was me being stupid.

sure thing guys! glad i could help...

Always something stupid...

[RELEASE] Metamorph - Theme Control File Upgrader

Stericson have a new Metamorph App.
It uses xml theme control files instead of the old thm files.
danation from the ModMyMoto forum has made a program, that updates the thm file to the new xml format.
It works very very well.
Please at all themers:
Use the Pro Version, use the new Metamorph with xml. Upgrade your Morphs with the xml files. Its not many work for you, but you can help us themers and users if you do this.
Download
http://www.4shared.com/file/5l0E6t76/ThemeControlFileUpgrader.html
Original Post at ModMyMotoForum
http://www.modmymoto.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3917253&postcount=10
Thanks, danation, thanks stericson! Great work!

Today, stericson has changed the free version to the new format, too!
Please upgrade your themes, themers!
So there are no chaos to the community!

I love it! thanks bro

I have noticed the themes are not working now... people need to update the themes they created... please??

Contact your theme developer.
I'm in the process of upgrading mine to the new XML format right now.
If the theme developer is no longer around you will have to either obtain and use a copy of the old metamorph app or use the conversion tool to convert the .thm into a .xml file before use.

After using the tool I can say it works, but I can think of a few ideas to make it easier. First of all, is there any CLI support? The GUI is a bit annoying. Also, the ability to drag+drop a .thm file right on the window and have it output the .xml converted file in the same directory would be just awesome.
All in all, Great work. It saves me from manually creating new .xml files for all my old .thm files.

this is a great tool that makes it super easy to change .thm files to xml. If only all the idiots on the market giving metamorph bad reviews could read this. Not hard to do it yourself if the theme dev is not around...

I don't really know, why themers out there have used the free version and didn't donate stericson for his hard work!
We know since three weeks, that the thm file become changed to the xml file
And now there is the chaos, because there are a lot of guys, who didn't read instructions.

Perhaps worth noting in the original post that this is an app for Windows. I assumed it was an Android app.

riddley said:
Perhaps worth noting in the original post that this is an app for Windows. I assumed it was an Android app.
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Its a Java app wrapped in an exe container for windows.
The release .zip also contains the .jar file that can be run on any desktop OS.
Command:
java -jar ThemeControlFileUpgrader.jar

riddley said:
Perhaps worth noting in the original post that this is an app for Windows. I assumed it was an Android app.
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I don't have said anything about an app. And if you have java installed at your home computer, theres no problem.
Or where do you see a problem?
P.S.: I have now 618 downloads of the themefilepatcher and everything is fine.
I think, danation has done a real good job!

Thanks for posting this thread, Formel-LMS
I have an update:
I would post a link, but how do I get this taken off, lol?
To prevent spam to the forums, new users are not permitted to post outside links in their messages. All new user accounts will be verified by moderators before this restriction is removed.
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Anyway, you can find it at the original thread at M3, the link Formel-LMS posted in the original post.
-1.1-
* Fixed bug that always warned about duplicate files
* When errors are found, it finishes writing all valid data before terminating.
-1.0-
* Ignores single blank lines
* Captures notes after double blank lines
* Adds functionality to enter in header information
* Prevents file overwriting
* Puts framework at the bottom no matter where it is in the .thm file

mytharak said:
After using the tool I can say it works, but I can think of a few ideas to make it easier. First of all, is there any CLI support? The GUI is a bit annoying. Also, the ability to drag+drop a .thm file right on the window and have it output the .xml converted file in the same directory would be just awesome.
All in all, Great work. It saves me from manually creating new .xml files for all my old .thm files.
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Drag and drop is a good idea. I haven't tried that with Java before. I'll see what I can do.
What is CLI support?

Danation said:
What is CLI support?
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I think be means this.
If it accepted a file/path as an argument then you would not need drag-and-drop...just create a batch file that used %1 and you drag the .thm file on it.

Nice to see you here, danation.
Thank you very much for this great option and the support!!
You must write some posts to have the permission to attach some files. I don't know why, but at xda is it so I think.

britoso said:
I think be means this.
If it accepted a file/path as an argument then you would not need drag-and-drop...just create a batch file that used %1 and you drag the .thm file on it.
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Oh, I see now. I'm not really planning on adding command line functionality, unless a lot of people really want it a lot.
But drag and drop sounded good, so I added it to 1.2
Version 1.2 can be found at the "original thread" link at the beginning of the thread.
-1.2-
* Drag and drop feature added (I borrowed some public domain code found at sourceforge) Tested on Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Should work on Mac and Kubuntu as well.
* Option to disable dialogs

Danation said:
Oh, I see now. I'm not really planning on adding command line functionality, unless a lot of people really want it a lot.
But drag and drop sounded good, so I added it to 1.2
Version 1.2 can be found at the "original thread" link at the beginning of the thread.
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Could you post a non-forum link... I'm not registered at modmymoto so I cant download 1.2

britoso said:
Could you post a non-forum link... I'm not registered at modmymoto so I cant download 1.2
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I keep trying, but XDA still gives me a message that I'm not verified by the forum moderators.
I attached it to this post, though.
(removed attachment, new version in post #20)

Thanks again, danation! Very cool!

Formel-LMS said:
Thanks again, danation! Very cool!
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Happy to do what I can
____________________________________________
This is the final version, unless there are any bug fixes needed.
Included in the download is an executable JAR file that will work on any operating system that has the Java Runtime Environment installed (version 6 or later.) Windows, Mac, and most Linux Distros will be able to run this program.
An equivalent EXE file was also added for the convenience of Windows users.
Original download location at M3 is here.
The latest version is also attached to this post.
-1.3-
* Drag and drop directories - All .thm files in the directory and all subdirectories will be converted. Other files are ignored. You can convert all of your themes at the same time
-1.2-
* Drag and drop feature added (I borrowed some public domain code found here.) Tested on Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Should work on Mac and Kubuntu as well.
* Option to disable dialogs
-1.1-
* Fixed bug that always warned about duplicate files
* When errors are found, it finishes writing all valid data before terminating.
-1.0-
* Ignores single blank lines
* Captures notes after double blank lines
* Adds functionality to enter in header information
* Prevents file overwriting
* Puts framework at the bottom no matter where it is in the .thm file

[TOOL] RegawMOD Zip Signer v1.0 | 9-28-2010

Description:
RegawMOD Zip Signer is a tool for Windows that allows one to sign an unsigned zip (ie: a complete ROM zip, a theme zip, or any update zip) to enable flashing from a custom recovery on your Android device.
Usage:
To use, just drag the zip that you want signed onto the program's icon and it will sign it for you. All you do is drag and drop, and it signs it! Can be run from anywhere on the computer
Screenshots
Screenshots
Changelog
Version 1.0 | 09-18-2010:
Initial Release
Latest Release
Version 1.0
Download Info
MD5: b4dba6950d3c8a1423c88985e0293f23
Virus Total Report
Source Code Available By Request Only

Please post here with feedback so I can make it better, if necessary

Awesome, thank you sir. I would test it out, but I just switched my laptop over to Linux (don't ask why because I am questioning myself right now.)
But I will add a mirror for you because I know some people have issues with 4Shared.
MegaUpload Mirror

exactly what I was waiting for! Thanks for another great tool!!!!

thank you sir.

would we still need to delete the three files: CERT.RSA, CERT.SF, MANIFEST.MF prior to zipping and then drag/drop, or is it not necessary to do so?? Thanks in advance.
edit: looks like deleting those files and then signing them re-adds those files into the zip

Thanks regaw. I have been trying to find a way to sign my zip file.

heyman123 said:
would we still need to delete the three files: CERT.RSA, CERT.SF, MANIFEST.MF prior to zipping and then drag/drop, or is it not necessary to do so?? Thanks in advance.
edit: looks like deleting those files and then signing them re-adds those files into the zip
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Not sure about that, I usually just go ahead and do that anyways.. I in fact have never tested it without deleting those 3 cert files, so I wouldn't know. I'll test it tonight.
joshhunt said:
Thanks regaw. I have been trying to find a way to sign my zip file.
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Awesome, this should be a great way to sign it easily
heyman123 said:
exactly what I was waiting for! Thanks for another great tool!!!!
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No prob Hopefully more coming soon!
I am uploading it to a real server now, no more 4shared

Awesome. I am going to be starting my themeing project this week and this will save me a step. Great job.

If you like this, check out a cool program I just made for Omegasuns BareBone App and Sense Removal Script! Allows full editing of the zip's script without having to resign it afterward.
HERE
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8363452&postcount=52

Thanks! I'll be saving this for when I flash new roms.

link is down? or am i down?

Hmmm, that's odd, the entire server is down... I'm contacting the owner right now to see what's up.. all of my files are down for right now...

Download worked fine. Script worked like a charm.
Thanks

Is there a reason why it just sits on "Checking zip...." for 10mins and doesn't do anything? I've done this several times.
I can't get this to work

This thing is awesome. Fyi.

Thanks a lot for the program. Do I have to follow any special procedures if I want to sign a rom, or is it really as simple as removing the apks I dont want, adding the ones I do want, changing the boot animation and dragging and dropping the changed rom? Most roms come with programs that I would rather remove before flashing and there are a lot of little things I like to add before flashing--saves me the trouble of removing them w/ TI.
Cheers!

nice work, glad to see you in the evo forums

I can't seem to get this to work. Says it has created a new .zip file but it's not listed. any help??

re2gie01 said:
I can't seem to get this to work. Says it has created a new .zip file but it's not listed. any help??
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Try searching for the file. Whenever I use it, it says it created the signed file in the same directory as the original file, BUT it was actually in C:\documents and settings\user.

[PC/Software] Drag'n'MD5 v1.0 - Calculate MD5 with just a Drag & Drop!

Hello, this is a basic software, that let you calculate the MD5 about files/folder , with just drag and drop inside the box.
Two version, English, and Spanish
Requirements:
Windows OS
Java installed
Screenshots attached
MD5's (Yes calculed with Drag'n'MD5)
D72F2AEF02AEE27126C1CE867F3305DA - EN
076B8B8A510179BDBC6DCD27FAE0542A - ES

Changelog:
15.08.2011 - v1
Initial release

going to test it
you are GENIUS workig just like that

Where you drop them? Is md4 and sha1 next? Nice one mate!

New version uploaded, added comparison, and recursive comparison with clipboard
EDIT: Fixed bugs, reuploaded, enjoy!

Nice work mate! Only you should use some less boring animation during md5 calc Works great!

We've been waiting for this for sometime, thanks.

Thanks for the hard work, and i am appreciative. is this used to check the MD5SUM post downloading a ROM or flash-able .zip, or to verify the md5sum prior to publicly posting a ROM or flash-able .zip If it is used for verifying downloads, what is the difference between this and using the
Code:
# md5sum /mnt/sdcard/[file_name].zip
from within the adb shell?

neidlinger said:
Thanks for the hard work, and i am appreciative. is this used to check the MD5SUM post downloading a ROM or flash-able .zip, or to verify the md5sum prior to publicly posting a ROM or flash-able .zip If it is used for verifying downloads, what is the difference between this and using the
Code:
# md5sum /mnt/sdcard/[file_name].zip
from within the adb shell?
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Drag'n'MD5 it's a software originally made to get ANY file MD5, but last release also have MD5 check, that means you can use for check downloaded zip MD5, or pre-check MD5 for publishing a zip.
The difference with adb shell it's that you can drag & drop ANY file, and get its MD5, based on substrings, and file digest.
*Note* Any it's on caps, because it's not specifically designed for get Zip's MD5.
Cheers,
D4.

Is installation necessary? Could you release a "portable" version (executable only)?

halfsoul said:
Is installation necessary? Could you release a "portable" version (executable only)?
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Consideer it as an "unpacker", you can choose desktop (or any place you like), disable shortcuts, and just run it, as an portable app.
Cheers.

Could you make a Portuguese version?
I'm sure it won't be difficult for you, since you know Spanish.
Sent from my Milestone 2 XDA App

dangpzanco said:
Could you make a Portuguese version?
I'm sure it won't be difficult for you, since you know Spanish.
Sent from my Milestone 2 XDA App
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I'm sorry but you're wrong, spanish syntax it's very different to portuguese, so it's not easy for me. Also would be more work, because I forgot to use multilanguage settings, and I did release 2 versions as you can see. So portuguese will be 3 versions. Just use English or spanish version.
Cheers.

I'm trying to use this software and when I drag a zip file into the "drag and Drop Here" I get the Circle with a line through it, and nothing happens.
I made sure to run it as and administrator on my pc, and I have windows 7 x64 version. 8 gig of ram, and a quad core processor.
The zip file is from Prime_v1.8.2.zip from the Transformer Dev Roach2010.
Although I just tried dragging a few txt files, and those don't work either.

D4rKn3sSyS said:
Consideer it as an "unpacker", you can choose desktop (or any place you like), disable shortcuts, and just run it, as an portable app.
Cheers.
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I see. Just to confirm, it doesn't make any registry/uninstaller changes?

I am an administrator on my Windows 7 machine but when I try run setup.exe it tells me "You must be logged in as an administrator when installing this program." Any ideas?

halfsoul said:
I see. Just to confirm, it doesn't make any registry/uninstaller changes?
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No, uninstaller it's an .ini file, not even touchs registry, don't worry.

Silly Man said:
I am an administrator on my Windows 7 machine but when I try run setup.exe it tells me "You must be logged in as an administrator when installing this program." Any ideas?
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Right click and select Run as administrator?
Sent by Skeletor from Castle of Greyskull using XDA Premium App

metaldood said:
Right click and select Run as administrator?
Sent by Skeletor from Castle of Greyskull using XDA Premium App
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I thought of that as well, but I get the same message!

[TOOL] Something to make BlobTools Easier to use

This tool is an interactive console application. It makes it easier to use blob tools. All you have to do is run it, choose to unpack or repack. If you choose repack it will ask you to enter the name for each of the required files. After that it will due the rest.
Notice: You either have to enter the full, have the blob file in the same directory/folder or have change changed directories to the location of the blob. For example: cd /path/to/blob's Dir/
Update: I have fixed the case sensitivity issue.
Note: The attachments below will always be the latest.

ostar2 said:
I created an application to make BlobTools easier to use. It is an interactive console application. I made this because I wanted to be of some help to the community. Well anyways, here it is...
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Files are corrupt. Try again please.
Regards,
Brad

bradslinux said:
Files are corrupt. Try again please.
Regards,
Brad
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Those were compressed with the LZMA algorithm. Here try these ones there compressed with the normal zip compression for windows.
Edit: To prevent confusion I have removed these attachments please download from The Original Post. Thanks.

ostar2 said:
Those were compressed with the LZMA algorithm. Here try these ones there compressed with the normal zip compression for windows.
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That did it, thanks.
Nice work.
Regards,
Brad

welcome..

Excellent! Thank you - these will aid me greatly!

I like to be of help to the community so I am happy that this helps others.

Sourcecode and Update
As I am unable to compile for Linux or mac at the moment here is the sourcecode for this tool.
This uses a Code::Blocks IDE for its project/workspace. It can be compiled with just a c++ compiler. The icon is only available on windows as I do not know to implement it on macosx and Linux does not support icons in executables. also, I have updated this application as well the updated binarie zip files and source zip are attached. Enjoy!
Edit: To prevent confusion I have removed these attachments please download from The Original Post. Thanks.

ostar2 said:
As I am unable to compile for Linux or mac at the moment here is the sourcecode for this tool.
This uses a Code::Blocks IDE for its project/workspace. It can be compiled with just a c++ compiler. The icon is only available on windows as I do not know to implement it on macosx and Linux does not support icons in executables. also, I have updated this application as well the updated binarie zip files and source zip are attached. Enjoy!
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I tried to unpack a blob and it kept failing with an Invalid Option! error. I hit u then typed blob which was in the same directory. I then manually dragged the blob onto the blobunpack.exe and it unpacked it fine.
Any ideas why?

sbdags said:
I tried to unpack a blob and it kept failing with an Invalid Option! error. I hit u then typed blob which was in the same directory. I then manually dragged the blob onto the blobunpack.exe and it unpacked it fine.
Any ideas why?
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I was unsure of what extenstion the blob file had when I created this. What extenstion do they have? is it .blob? If so I think i can fix it.

Update: Fixed Not unpacking
Hello again I fixed the tool it should work fine now.
Edit: To prevent confusion I have removed these attachments please download from The Original Post. Thanks.

ostar2 said:
I was unsure of what extenstion the blob file had when I created this. What extenstion do they have? is it .blob? If so I think i can fix it.
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The blobs usually have no extension at all, and the extracted parts have a dot and the partition name as their last part, but I would not call these "extensions" (even if Windows disagrees with me).

_that said:
The blobs usually have no extension at all, and the extracted parts have a dot and the partition name as their last part, but I would not call these "extensions" (even if Windows disagrees with me).
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Thanks, that makes more sense. Also, I am thinking about having BlobTools print the command usage in more detail or at least a "--help" command displaying detailed usage of BlobTools. Like, how to unpack and repack.

[WIP] New tool
I am going to make gui version of this using wxwidgets and also maby consolidate the two tools into one and then combine it with GUI. That would make it much better.

still getting the "invalid option" message :/

arminneman said:
still getting the "invalid option" message :/
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Please re-download from the original post. It should work fine. If not let me know.

Ok, its updated let me know if any problems occur.

ostar2 said:
Ok, its updated let me know if any problems occur.
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I try it on win 7 64bit, run as administrator BlobToolUI select u and blob the name of file and give this error:
Unable to open "b"
Can You help me?
Thanks
Riccardo.

cipolippo said:
I try it on win 7 64bit, run as administrator BlobToolUI select u and blob the name of file and give this error:
Unable to open "b"
Can You help me?
Thanks
Riccardo.
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Is the blob you want to unpack in the same directory? If that does not work try adding a "." the end of the file name.

ostar2 said:
Is the blob you want to unpack in the same directory? If that does not work try adding a "." the end of the file name.
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Yes is in the same directory, adding a "." the end of the file does not work..
work if I rename file "blob" in also "b" ?
Thanks.