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Honestly the challenge for me, as an iPhone user but not a complete Apple cloud ecosystem user, is getting the damn things off my phone. Is there anyway to do

by auto 5y ago

Honestly the challenge for me, as an iPhone user but not a complete Apple cloud ecosystem user, is getting the damn things off my phone. Is there anyway to do this that isn't trash yet? So many of the processes I've run through either fail randomly, or Apple has broken. At one point I remember being able to just plug into a linux box, do some mounting magic, and transfer the files over just like any USB device, but I feel like that didn't work the last time I tried. It's downright hostile.

MarkusWandel 5y ago
I don't know about recently, but historically, "idevicepair" or whatever it's called on the Linux box, and then the iPhone photos come down quickly and reliably. Android is OK these days, but used to be really dodgy to download via USB cable. But recently I just use a wifi file server app. "Sweech" on Android. A couple of taps and I can download the newest stuff as a zip file via web browser.
deltarholamda 5y ago
Scrapbooks. Seriously. Pay the money to have photos printed, and put them into a scrapbook. If you have kids, this is a fantastic weekend project that everybody loves. If not, just having them in a physical photo album is good too. Quantity is a quality on its own, but not when it comes to photographs. Edit ruthlessly.
- nocman 5y ago
  Did you reply to the wrong parent? How is this even remotely related to how to transfer files from your phone to another device?
  - deltarholamda 5y ago
    My point is don't transfer, extract.
tetromino_ 5y ago
https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse - used it literally 2 days ago to back up a couple tens of GB of photos and videos. Works great.
gingerlime 5y ago
I use photosync to automatically push all photos and videos to my NAS over Samba. Photosync has a ton of options, webdav, ftp you name it. Costs a few bucks one-off and worth every penny. Not affiliated in any way, but definitely feel gratitude and want to support the app creator by spreading the word, to make sure they keep maintaing it.

by auto 5y ago

MarkusWandel 5y ago

I don't know about recently, but historically, "idevicepair" or whatever it's called on the Linux box, and then the iPhone photos come down quickly and reliably. Android is OK these days, but used to be really dodgy to download via USB cable. But recently I just use a wifi file server app. "Sweech" on Android. A couple of taps and I can download the newest stuff as a zip file via web browser.

deltarholamda 5y ago

Scrapbooks. Seriously. Pay the money to have photos printed, and put them into a scrapbook. If you have kids, this is a fantastic weekend project that everybody loves. If not, just having them in a physical photo album is good too. Quantity is a quality on its own, but not when it comes to photographs. Edit ruthlessly.

nocman 5y ago
Did you reply to the wrong parent? How is this even remotely related to how to transfer files from your phone to another device?
- deltarholamda 5y ago
  My point is don't transfer, extract.

tetromino_ 5y ago

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse - used it literally 2 days ago to back up a couple tens of GB of photos and videos. Works great.

gingerlime 5y ago

I use photosync to automatically push all photos and videos to my NAS over Samba. Photosync has a ton of options, webdav, ftp you name it. Costs a few bucks one-off and worth every penny. Not affiliated in any way, but definitely feel gratitude and want to support the app creator by spreading the word, to make sure they keep maintaing it.