Re: Alternative to iPhone Explorer?

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Steven Nelson <steven-nelson@uiowa.edu> wrote:
> On Aug 22, 4:41 pm, Egan Ford <dataj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Aug 22, 1:55 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
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>>> Steven Nelson wrote:
>>>> On Aug 22, 12:39 pm, Michael J. Mahon <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
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>>>>> Steven Nelson <steven-nel...@uiowa.edu> wrote:
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>>>>>> On Aug 18, 2:29 am, Michael J. Mahon <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
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>>>>>>> I'd like to add some of my own images to the Best of FTA app on my iPhone,
>>>>>>> but iPhone Explorer complains about a DLL and recommends I wait until Apple
>>>>>>> fixes it in another Safari update...
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>>>>>>> I'd like not to wait, so what's a good alternative to iPhone Explorer?
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>>>>>> I just tried DiskAid from DigiDNA on my G5 iMac w/ 10.5.8.  It works
>>>>>> much better than iPhone Explorer (hich doesn't work for me).  Luckily,
>>>>>> I got free registration from DigiDNA because of .edu email address.
>>>>>> Even with a paid regisration (14d free trial), I recommend DiskAid.
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>>>>> Thanks, but I probably should have specified that I use a Wintel platform
>>>>> (as in DLLs  ;-).
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>>>>> -michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II:http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon
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>>>> Michael, Wintel - tsk, tsk ;-)
>>>> DiskAid also comes for Wintel AFAIK.  But I access Best of FTA through
>>>> the 'root' directory which requires a jailbreak.  I don't know if you
>>>> can access the BoFTA.app directory on an regular ipad.  The documents
>>>> directory is probably accessible though.  Try the 14d free trial.
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>>> I'll look for DiskAid.
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>>> iPhone Explorer doesn't allow me to access the "apps" directory,
>>> and my understanding was that the BofFTA Documents directory was
>>> nested inside the BoFTA app directory.
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>>> In any case, I tried opening everything I could, and could only
>>> see photos and .pdf's in iBooks--no other app data.
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>>> -michael
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>>> NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing!
>>> Home page:  http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/
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>>> "The wastebasket is our most important design
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>> You are correct, it is in the Apps folder.  If you get DiskAid working
>> please let me know.  Thanks.
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> Alternative world view:  between Egan and I, we are sure to confuse
> Michael.  On my ipad the BofFTA.app directory and Documents directory
> are both at the same level inside a Folder inside the Applications
> folder.  Thus on my iPad I find "Steven-Nelsons-iPad:/var/mobile/
> Applications/1D9EE612-8777-416D-801C-156934FC26D9/Best Of FTA.app" and
> "Steven-Nelsons-iPad:/var/mobile/Applications/
> 1D9EE612-8777-416D-801C-156934FC26D9/Documents".  Now, applications
> like iPhone Explorer and DiskAid mask the 1D9EE612* folder with the
> name of the enclosed app "Best of FTA".  So to iPE and DA it appears
> to be "/var/mobile/Applications/Best of FTA/Best of FTA.app" and /var/
> mobile/Applications/Best of FTA/Documents"  and a couple other folders
> too.  Confusing?  But to me, they appear at parallel level, and
> Documents is not nested in .app folder.  IIRC, the jerkwerks website
> explanation of Best of FTA show this folder arrangement too.
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> On another note, FTA sent me an email today explaining to use
> _memoryize:8 (note underscore) in list.activegsxml file.  It works!
> Thanks Egan too!

I think it would also reduce my confusion if the jailbroken appearance were
not discussed in the non-jailbroken context. 

iPhone Explorer will not open my apps directory *at all* because of what it
calls a DLL problem (of Apple's). 

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon