[Solved] iPhone to Arch picture transfer - a memory check

WeeDram · 2017-07-25 21:50:29

The memory I want to check is my own. I seem to recall being able to plug an iphone or ipad into my computer (Arch installed, nothing else), having the i-thingy ask if the computer can be trusted, saying yes and then being able to see various ipad/phone folders in Thunar. From there it was very easy to copy my pictures from the device to my backup hard drive. That doesn't happen now. Does anyone know if this was ever possible?

I could easily be wrong about this since I also have a windows 10 machine which I might have used. The last transfer I did was over a year ago. If that is the case, I'll just have to figure out how to make it happen on Arch, if possible.

Last edited by WeeDram (2017-07-26 19:33:15)

jasonwryan · 2017-07-25 21:52:45

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IOS

WeeDram · 2017-07-25 22:16:15

Thanks very much for your quick reply. Before I posted, I got to that wiki, installed gvfs-afc (which I must have had on a previous installation but wasn't on the present one). I still couldn't see the iphone so I sent the message, shut down the machine and re-booted as soon as I discovered you had replied. Of course, it worked so the step I missed, I suppose, was restarting the file manager. Anyway it is working now so thanks again. Much appreciated and it is good to discover that my memory is not as bad as I had thought.

WeeDram · 2017-07-26 02:22:20

Spoke too soon. Although I can bring up the iphone in Thunar, the folders with the photos (DCIM/100APPLE, etc.) are not there. This not the way I remember things so either I have forgotten to install some other program that I used to have or things have changed or I didn't use my Arch installation to do the transfer.

Xyne · 2017-07-26 02:29:07

WeeDram wrote:

I seem to recall being able to plug an iphone or ipad into my computer (Arch installed, nothing else), having the i-thingy ask if the computer can be trusted, saying yes and then being able to see various ipad/phone folders in Thunar.

Aside from plugging the device in, that sounds like it could be bluetooth pairing, but I expect that would be too slow for transferring large amounts of data.

WeeDram · 2017-07-26 02:44:54

It wasn't bluetooth pairing. I remember actually trying to set up bluetooth for a different reason and was unsuccessful. Is the usual behaviour when plugging in the iPhone for DCIM NOT to be visible/accessible? Using ifuse, I have no trouble bringing up DCIM/100APPLE etc. though the behaviour of the console is a bit different. When I try a tab-completion of a file name it doesn't work for the iPhone.

WeeDram · 2017-07-26 19:32:31

Well, after figuring out that I should mount the iPhone/Pad at a mount point that belongs to me rather than root when using ifuse, I got everything working as I remembered it. I know that I had never installed ifuse before this so I have not resolved whether or not there was a change in the way i-stuff was handled in Arch between the last time I copied photos over or if I just used the windows machine. I'll call this thread solved, though, for what it is worth.

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[Solved] iPhone to Arch picture transfer - a memory check

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