I never said I'm a hacker but I do know tar and rsync, that is why I'm not impressed with you. Strange choice, trying to impress with those. If I had a problem that I couldn't fix after searching then I would post a question on this forum. What did the master foo did when his thingy did not communicate with iDrive ? the linux thing to do is to try solve the problem by yourself and contribute to the community, not cry about it.