[enhanced script draft] How can I transfer photos from my IPhone to my desktop computer?

[Ralf Mardorf]

Hi,

the draft for a script now contains a delay to 'emulate' manually
mounting.

It now does faster and more reliable unmounting, by taking a look at the
app directories of the mount points, instead of taking care of the apps
installed on the iDevice.

It contains a few other minor changes, too.

However, the delay doesn't help.

In short, it's possible to automatically provide access to the photos
and videos. This does work!

But to get access to the apps' documents, it's required to manually
mount the apps that provide file sharing, instead of trying to mount a
list of all apps, that contains also apps that don't allow file sharing.

Again, manually mounting e.g. 'com.steinberg.cubasis' works...
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[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ mkdir -p Desktop/ipad && ifuse -u 12c6f0748b9d3344303a0b5d775136ac4d4a7341 --documentscom.steinberg.cubasis Desktop/ipad 
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ls Desktop/ipad/
Audio  Effects  Instruments  Midi  Mixdown  Projects  Trash
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ umount Desktop/ipad/ && rmdir Desktop/ipad/


...testing the script with a grotesque long delay...
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[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ IMNT_VE=1 IMNTDLY=2 imnt2/imnt 

iMount Version 2019-08-18-1
Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com>

Usage: imnt


IMNT_SU=sudo # sudo, gksudo etc.
IMNT_VE=1    # verbose 0 or 1
IMNT_FM=     # file manager
IMNTDLY=2  # delay for mounting, to work around the house_arrest issue

Push 'Enter' to continue. 

Push 'Enter' to confirm.  

usbmuxd: active (running) since Sun 2019-08-18 12:14:26 CEST; 5min ago

CPUArchitecture:armv7f
DeviceClass:iPad
ModelNumber:MC770
iOS:9.3.5

UniqueDeviceID:12c6f0748b9d3344303a0b5d775136ac4d4a7341

Please wait.

[snip]
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........ifuse -u 12c6f0748b9d3344303a0b5d775136ac4d4a7341 --documents com.agilepartners.ampkit /tmp/imnt/12c6f0748b9d3344303a0b5d775136ac4d4a7341/ampkit_--_com.agilepartners.ampkit
ERROR: InstallationLookupFailed
The App 'com.agilepartners.ampkit' is either not present on the device, or the 'UIFileSharingEnabled' key is not set in its Info.plist. Starting with iOS 8.3 this key is mandatory to allow access to an app's Documents folder.

........ifuse -u 12c6f0748b9d3344303a0b5d775136ac4d4a7341 --documents com.moogmusic.animoog /tmp/imnt/12c6f0748b9d3344303a0b5d775136ac4d4a7341/animoog_--_com.moogmusic.animoog


...is ok for some apps, e.g. 'com.moogmusic.animoog' can be mounted, but this also works without a delay...
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[snip]
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........ifuse -u 12c6f0748b9d3344303a0b5d775136ac4d4a7341 --documents com.steinberg.cubasis /tmp/imnt/12c6f0748b9d3344303a0b5d775136ac4d4a7341/cubasis_--_com.steinberg.cubasis
Failed to start AFC service 'com.apple.mobile.house_arrest' on the device.


...for other apps, e.g. 'com.steinberg.cubasis' it fails...
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[snip] ^C
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[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ mkdir -p Desktop/ipad && ifuse -u 12c6f0748b9d3344303a0b5d775136ac4d4a7341 --documentscom.steinberg.cubasis Desktop/ipad 
Failed to start AFC service 'com.apple.mobile.house_arrest' on the device.
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ date
Sun 18 Aug 2019 12:36:22 PM CEST
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ mkdir -p Desktop/ipad && ifuse -u 12c6f0748b9d3344303a0b5d775136ac4d4a7341 --documentscom.steinberg.cubasis Desktop/ipad 
Failed to start AFC service 'com.apple.mobile.house_arrest' on the device.
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ mkdir -p Desktop/ipad && ifuse -u 12c6f0748b9d3344303a0b5d775136ac4d4a7341 --documentscom.steinberg.cubasis Desktop/ipad 
Failed to start AFC service 'com.apple.mobile.house_arrest' on the device.
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ IMNTDLY=0.1 imnt2/imnt


[snip]
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...without unmounting and/or waiting a little bit, manually mounting doesn't work, so I run the script again to unmount...
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rmdir: removing directory, '/tmp/imnt/12c6f0748b9d3344303a0b5d775136ac4d4a7341/0000_--_APPLE_PICS_N_VIDS'
rmdir: removing directory, '/tmp/imnt/12c6f0748b9d3344303a0b5d775136ac4d4a7341'
rmdir: removing directory, '/tmp/imnt'

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ date
Sun 18 Aug 2019 12:43:31 PM CEST
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ mkdir -p Desktop/ipad && ifuse -u 12c6f0748b9d3344303a0b5d775136ac4d4a7341 --documentscom.steinberg.cubasis Desktop/ipad 
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ls -hAl Desktop/ipad/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  5 rocketmouse rocketmouse  170 Feb  8  2019 Audio
drwxr-xr-x 31 rocketmouse rocketmouse 1.1K Feb  8  2019 Effects
drwxr-xr-x  4 rocketmouse rocketmouse  136 Feb  8  2019 Instruments
drwxr-xr-x  6 rocketmouse rocketmouse  204 Feb  8  2019 Midi
drwxr-xr-x  2 rocketmouse rocketmouse   68 Feb  8  2019 Mixdown
drwxr-xr-x  8 rocketmouse rocketmouse  272 Feb  8  2019 Projects
drwxr-xr-x  2 rocketmouse rocketmouse   68 Feb  8  2019 Trash
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ umount Desktop/ipad/ && rmdir Desktop/ipad/


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...right after unmounting everything, manually mounting
'com.steinberg.cubasis' works again, without a shutdown, reset or even
unplugging USB.

Regards,
Ralf
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