[gentoo-user] Iphone and transferring image files, pics and videos.

[Dale]

Howdy all,

My Sis-n-law has a Iphone.  She takes TONS of pics and quite a lot of
videos with it.  Since a lot of them are family photos, I'd like to
download them to my puter.  I'd prefer to use Digikam since I can tell
it to 'download new' next time and not have to worry about duplicates or
missing some.  Thing is, it can't access all the photo directories.  I
know there is about 4,000 files all together.  Digikam only shows less
than 1,000.  I managed to copy them over using Dolphin but it took
several tries and some disconnect and reconnecting to do it. 

I did see a error in messages that mtp-probe?? was missing.  I found it
and installed it.  That error went away and it did improve things. 
Maybe I'm missing something else but dmesg and messages isn't complaining. 

What do others do to accomplish this?  Is it normal to have issues with
this or am I missing something? 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

[Dale]

Laurence Perkins wrote:
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> It's a bit more work than maybe you're looking for, but I set up a Nextcloud server and then all our phones have the Nextcloud app and are set to automatically upload new pictures whenever they have an appropriate connection.
>
> This does require maintaining a Nextcloud server or similar, but it also makes it so that you don't have to plug the phone into anything, or even remember to do it yourself.
>
> Furthermore, if you configure the Nextcloud app correctly, then when you run low on space, you can tell it to remove the local copies of the older pictures and it will keep only the thumbnails on the phone itself, but can seamlessly pull them back in should you want to look at them full-size.
>
> Plus it lets you synchronize notes for things like grocery lists at no extra charge.
>
> I know a few people who use iPhones with Linux. It can usually be made to work with some trouble, but Apple constantly tries to lock out third party access, so it requires regular updates and tweaking.
>
> LMP

So me having issues with it wasn't just me, it's just how it is. 
Great.  Well, at least I know it isn't something I'm doing wrong.  Guess
I'll have to deal with it as is.  I was hoping I could get it to work
dependably with Digikam but maybe not. 

Thanks for the info.  It helps clear up things. Just wish it worked as
well as my Samsung.  It works like a regular camera with no issues at
all.  :-)

Dale

:-)  :-) 

[Michael]

I have used app-pda/libimobiledevice and app-pda/ifuse as described here:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Apple_iPod,_iPad,_iPhone

Then dragged and dropped pictures with Dolphin. However, it was just a few
hundreds, rather than 4k. It worked fine.

[Dale]

That may help.  I'll give it a try next time.  I'm hoping at some point
I can use Digikam.  I like that I can just tell it to 'download new' and
it knows what to get and what was already downloaded earlier.  It's one
thing I really like about Digikam. 

On a good note, I got the last video of my Mom before she died.  At
least that worked. 

Thanks for the info. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

[Grant Edwards]

On 2021-09-28, Laurence Perkins <lper...@openeye.net> wrote:

> I know a few people who use iPhones with Linux.

They've got more patience than I...

> It can usually be made to work with some trouble, but Apple
> constantly tries to lock out third party access, so it requires
> regular updates and tweaking.

Before I got my first smartphone, I had an iPod touch that I loved. It
was great for e-mail, games, music, etc. But, it was a nightmare
tryhing to get files to/from it. At the time, you couln't use Linux
_at_all_ with the touch models. Some of the older iPods would work
with certain Linux apps, sort of, somtimes, if you spent hours bashing
your head against a wall, and the phase of the moon was right.

iTunes on Windows was also a nightmare, but it usually worked,
eventually, after a few crashes and restarts. Then I was given an
iPad. It was also a lovely device, but it had the same hatred for
Linux (and almost as much for Windows).

When I finally broke down and got a smartphone I abandoned iOS and
went Android -- and transferring files was trivial and reliable. I'm
on my fourth Android phone, and it still is. I also gave up on the
iPad and am on my second Kindle Fire.

IMO, you should only buy an iOS device if you're never, ever, going to
want it to interact with anything non-Apple.

--
Grant