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

[Dale]

Michael wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 September 2021 22:08:09 BST Dale wrote:
>> Laurence Perkins wrote:
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>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> :-)  :-)
>>> 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
>>
>> :-)  :-)
> 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.

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

:-)  :-)