Hacking ZeroTwoXCI failed - how to get rid of dead files in NAND

smoere · Mar 20, 2019

I used ZeroTwoXCI to install and XCI to NAND. It took hours and nothing moved. I left it over night and the coming day the Switch was turned off.
The (partyl) installed game (Zelda) does not show up as startable item.

Now I wonder how would I get rid of the leftover files in NAND System from the failed install.
I see a lot of files in "Sys-NANDSystem://Contents/registered" but I fear to break things deleting them.

Any suggestion how to move forward?

smoere · Mar 20, 2019

I think I just found the root cause. ZeroTwoXCI seems to build a sub folder with NCAs on the SD card. The SD card was full (no free space left) in the middle of it. That's where it stopped (without output)
So my NAND is probably (more or less) clean.

It is a Bit unfortunate that ZeroTwoXCI did not give any feedback. I suggest to use this tool with caution

Masamune3210 · Mar 21, 2019

Using anything that writes to the NAND is possibly dangerous. Always take a backup if not completely sure

smoere · Mar 21, 2019

The first thing I did was taking a backup. So I do have a NAND backup.
Nevertheless I do not recommend using ZeroTwoXCI as it is not mature enough after what i feel. Feedback of the application is bad, especially when using it for doing stuff on NAND.

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