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I used to unpack the XBMC .rar on my PC, then transfer the files over to the Xbox, using the XBMC file manager. The file manager pointing to the network share where the unpacked XBMC was located.
It worked great. The process took quite some time.
Then I tried leaving the .rar on the PC as is, opening the .rar in XMBC file manager instead. Then mark all, copy, are you sure? Yes.
This way of copying takes about two minutes. It is incredibly fast.
Try it.
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craze7
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will do, but it only takes about 2 minutes over ftp aswell..
i use "ftp surfer" its freeware but it works great!
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That is a good idea! I've been extracting to my PC HDD, then transferring using flashFXP.
I'd be curious to know though if any of the devs have produced any scripts for making this process happen with a single click or two.
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In my experience FlashFXP doesnt cope well when transferring large numbers of very small files and I noticed a marked improvement in the time taken to ftp over an XBMC build when i moved over to FileZilla.
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Jezz_X
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Technically you shouldn't be running xbmc while trying to upgrade xbmc because some files maybe in use (locked) and not get changed
I useally use dvd2xbox with samba and its very quick
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An even easier way that I if your using X2 bios.
- Make two directories DASH1 and DASH2
- Modify the x2config.ini to access the default DASH1/default.xbe and then DASH2/default.xbe.
- Just ftp the the files over to the empty directory then blow away the old one.
I use Ipswitch FTP pro which transfers at very good speeds..
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I have an X3, and the X3 Bios.
To update XBMC I upload the new one into f:\apps\xbmc-pre2.1-rev#####
so f:\apps\xbmc-pre2.1-rev1333
I use the Team XBMC Shortcut as my 'dash' that sits on c:\, and then i just edit the cfg with the new path and reboot, and presto, new version of XBMC.
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I use XBMC as a dash, so I have the lock problem when updating.
I solve this by starting my XBMC development version from the filemanager. This removes the lock of the 'standard' one so I can replace it.
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spiff
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hold white+y while xbmc starts -> gives you the feh -> update at will