Re: iphone mount in nautilus on Fedora 24

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> 
> 
> On 07/11/2016 07:33 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >>> On 07/09/2016 12:04 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >>>>> In older Fedora (at least Fedora 22) I could easily mount my ihphone
> >>>>> in Nautilus. I could click on it in the left hand side of the File
> >>>>> Manager and it would mount.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am having trouble getting this same behavior in Fedora 24. Can
> >>>>> someone verify this works or does not work for them? You should be
> >>>>> able to verify this with Fedora 24 + Gnome + iphone + iphone cable.
> >>>>
> >>>> Support is provided by gvfs-afc through the libimobiledevice stack,
> >>>> the later hasn't really changed since F-22 when the 1.2.0 version
> >>>> fixed up support for the new iOS devices, upstream have confirmed that
> >>>> iOS 10 works with that version too [1], so not sure what might have
> >>>> broken.
> >>>
> >>> Hey Peter, thanks for responding.
> >>>
> >>> So things "work" just not as they used to. I can still mount the
> >>> files from the iphone if I use idevicepair and ifuse as described
> >>> at http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-22-iphone.html
> >>>
> >>> The problem is when I'm using nautilus I used to just be able to click
> >>> on the iphone in the left hand side menu and it would mount the files
> >>> and I could browse around. Now I see a similar item in the menu but
> >>> all I see are "Documents on Dusty's iPhone" and it lists out a few apps
> >>> that are installed on my phone, but it doesn't give me any option to
> >>> mount and browse files.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Well there's been no change lower down the stack since F-22 and the
> >> core functionality seems to be working. That indicates it's either 1)
> >> a change in iOS version that has impacted this (I've no idea about
> >> this) or a change in the way gvfs deals with iOS/afc which looking at
> >> changelogs for 1.28 could be  the case [1]. The one of interest seems
> >> to be commit 0b68656
> >>
> >> [1] https://download.gnome.org/sources/gvfs/1.28/gvfs-1.28.0.changes
> 
> Thanks Peter
> 
> > 
> > Yup. The "normal" mount contains nothing that normal users should access.
> > Accessing the photos will leave ghosts on the device, and there have been
> > no
> > ways to update the music database in Linux for a few iOS releases.
> > 
> > You can still access the device by editing the URL in the "Documents on..."
> > location. Just remove the ":3" at the end.
> > 
> > If you have use cases that aren't the 2 mentioned above, or using your
> > iDevice
> > as a thumb drive, please file bugs against gvfs in the upstream GNOME
> > Bugzilla.
> > 
> 
> Thanks Bastien. My use case is that I want to be able to copy pictures
> off of my phone and onto the computer. I simply copy them off of the
> phone, then eject phone from computer and then I delete them on the
> phone using the phones interface.. This is my method of recovering
> space on the phone.
> 
> I used to be able to just double click the icon in Nautilus and
> drag/drop the pictures where I wanted them to go. Now I have to use
> the CLI to get the same functionality.

Huh, the phone should still be getting mounted, but as a camera, and just as
a camera, and you can remove photos there without botching the phone's internal
photo database.

That definitely works here.
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