pull data onto computer during sync?

[Lynn Smith]

Hi everyone,

I'm wondering if there's a way to pull data from an app onto the user's computer during sync with iTunes. Anyone done this?

I did search around for an answer to this, but couldn't get a definitive answer from the developer site or the google.

Thanks!
Lynn

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[Paul Cantrell]

Lynn — iTunes keeps a backup of phone data, including the app's documents directory, so you _might_ be able to access that. However, it's in an Apple internal format that's probably not documented and subject to change.

Other than that, I'm not aware of anything like this. If there were, I'm pretty sure apps with desktop counterparts such as 1password would be using it.

Cheers,

Paul

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[Damon Allison]

From my understanding, it's not possible to sync your own data. I've heard people have filed an sdk "feature request" for this. It would certainly be nice to have...  

Damon

[Peter Edstrom]

I believe the Stanza app was using an undocumented usb api, but recently had to remove it.  What about bonjour networking between the iPhone app and a desktop app?

Cheers,
Peter

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[Dan Grigsby]

I've messed around with the backups.  There's a free backup decoder that you can get from [1].  I interviewed the author at [2].  The source for his earlier Python version is at [3].

[1] http://supercrazyawesome.com/

[2] http://www.mobileorchard.com/padraig-kennedy-and-pete-schwamb-interviews/

[3] http://code.google.com/p/iphone-backup-decoder/

If you use SQLite in your app you can grab the DB right out of the backup easy peasy.  But, of course, this is only really good for going in the one direction (phone to desktop) and not the other.

Alternatively, people used to have success using the DCIM folder.  Apple may be cracking down on using it [4].

http://patternmusic.com/wordpress/2009/12/02/is-apple-dropping-the-boom-and-the-ball-on-media-folder-access/

 

HTH,

Dan

On Feb 4, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Paul Cantrell wrote: