Re: Does anyone here have experience with "photofs" fixing photo naming?

On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 07:58:40 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer wrote :

With every adult operating system, you can name the photos coming out of
the mobile device - except with the brain-dead dumb-terminal iOS devices.

 
There is a very simple solution: don't use iPhones but phones with
an "adult operating system".

Hi Herbert,

I know you're a smart guy so I'm going to give you the correct response
but realize that my response below requires you to understand Linux a bit.

That's really not the solution as it's the same when I hear people telling
immigrants to go back where they came from if they don't like how things
are in the United States.

The attitude that you can't fix something just because it's designed poorly
is, in my humble opinion, the wrong attitude - and - I'm pretty sure you
don't normally hold that attitude.

All we need to do with photofs is work around Apple's dumb-terminal
restrictions, much as we did by hooking up iOS to a Linux USB port.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/s2x0f9Js/files14.jpg> Linux, win10 & iOS together
 <https://i.postimg.cc/g269S8rT/files13.jpg> How does macOS work with iOS?
 <https://i.postimg.cc/pVJf72fN/files12.jpg> iOS hacks very often will fail
 <https://i.postimg.cc/cChf8mx1/files11.jpg> iOS requires hacks to copy
 <https://i.postimg.cc/9MGdc2s7/files10.jpg> Android is 2-way fast over USB
 <https://i.postimg.cc/mDx3xkp4/files09.jpg> iOS is only DCIM & only 1-way
 <https://i.postimg.cc/3xcCBngd/files08.jpg> iOS is a dumb brick on Windows
 <https://i.postimg.cc/KjK4nHwf/files07.jpg> Ubuntu is two-way, everything
 <https://i.postimg.cc/Jhmy9KH7/files06.jpg> Ubuntu iFuse is just magical
 <https://i.postimg.cc/qqg61Rh8/files05.jpg> Ubuntu, movies _to_ iOS on USB
 <https://i.postimg.cc/QMk7tvZW/files04.jpg> Ubuntu is two way, everything
 <https://i.postimg.cc/d3SGkdgr/files03.jpg> Android is two way, everything
 <https://i.postimg.cc/L8b18Zmx/files02.jpg> iOS "Files" is nothing useful
 <https://i.postimg.cc/NFkXsJ0X/files01.jpg> iOS/Win is 1-way & DCIM only

Note that this afc command (which one in five million people know about),
instantly turns the iOS dumb terminal into a usable read/write USB drive.
 /run/user/1000/gvfs/afc:hose=<40char>,port=3/org.videolan.vlc-ios
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios170.jpg>

So instead of "just giving up", we can be intelligent and learn how to
convert the iOS dumb-terminal device into something more useful to us.
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios180.jpg> Read & write all!
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios170.jpg> Anywhere you want
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios160.jpg> Any file you want
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios150.jpg> Copy Win10 to iOS
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios140.jpg> read & write iOS
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios130.jpg> iFuse mounts all!
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios120.jpg> iFuse mounts iOS
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios110.jpg> iFuse Windows mnt
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios100.jpg> iFuse is native
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios090.jpg> Nobody knows this
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios080.jpg> The trick!
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios070.jpg> Look closely
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios060.jpg> Both read & write
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios050.jpg> Including DCIM
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios040.jpg> View iOS filesys
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios030.jpg> iOS mounts
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios020.jpg> Allow access?
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios010.jpg> Trust Computer?
 <http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_ios000.jpg> Ubuntu before iOS

Just to let you know, other adults on the Apple operating system newsgroups
have also complained about the file-naming conventions of iOS which
basically force you to log into Apple's mainframes to get decent names.

The way Apple designs things is nothing actually works in iOS unless you're
logging into Apple's Cupertino servers every single second of your life.

That's because the entire iOS device is designed as a dumb terminal, where
I have two of them beside me right now testing how long it will take for
Apple to unilaterally brick them because I refuse to log into their matrix.

Note: Apple bricked the last two in two years, so I'm simply testing a
different set of conditions to see how long it takes Apple to brick the
devices simply because I refuse to log into their matrix servers every day.

Back to photofs, note that iFuse with AFC turns the iOS device into a
usable USB device, with read and write permission on the iOS filesystem.

I'm hoping photfs will work as well as iFuse/afc works with the iOS device
to break free of iOS' dumb-terminal strategy w/o logging into the matrix.

I just need to find people who know more than I do, that's all.