[Solved ?] How can I transfer photos from my IPhone to my desktop computer?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:14:08 -0400, Little Girl wrote:
>Email will work, but isn't necessarily private. There are also size
>limitations, which could become a problem for her if she ends up
>wanting to send large files.
>
>If she uses an iCloud account to log onto her iPad, she can open any
>browser on her GNU/Linux machine, visit the https://www.icloud.com/
>page, and log in using the iCloud account.

Regarding privacy I've got way more concerns related to iCloud, than
emails. However, sometimes I used emails and the size limitation very
often was an annoying issue.

I most likely will write a script wrapping around the commands I
already mentioned. I'm thinking of a script that does everything
automatically after a click on a launcher, the only pitfall I can
imagine are Ubuntu flavours and derivatives that auto-mount by USB
connected iDevices. However, if auto-mount is disabled and the
packages contain the ID fix, it should be no issue to mount all file
sharing folders, the DCIM (photo) folder and to open a GUI file
manager or a terminal by just a single click on a launcher, after the
iDevice/s are connected. There should be no issue at all for a noob.
However, I noticed that I've got a mix of *.JPG and *.HEIC photos on
my iPad Pro. It should be no big deal to automatically convert all
*.HEIC to JPEG.

A VirtualBox host running a Windows guest should be no issue for a noob,
too, at least as long as an iPhone is used. For my 1 TB iPad Pro
VirtualBox sometimes requires maintenance, since the virtual machine
sometimes runs out of space. This is to complicated for newbies.