Re: Alternative to iPhone Explorer?

[Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com>]

Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>> tool--and it's seriously underused."
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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.
>> 
>> 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!
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> I think it would also reduce my confusion if the jailbroken appearance were
> not discussed in the non-jailbroken context. 
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> iPhone Explorer will not open my apps directory *at all* because of what it
> calls a DLL problem (of Apple's). 
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> -michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon

It is not necessary to jailbreak to use iPhone explorer or diskaid. The DLL
error comes from iTunes. iPhone explorer uses iTunes DLLs. If you are
running the latest iTunes and still have problems with iPhone explorer then
I'd suggest trying the 14 day diskaid for windows trial. If that does not
work then you will probably need to jailbreak. 

Good luck.