Re: Alternative to iPhone Explorer?

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

Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I'd like not to wait, so what's a good alternative to iPhone Explorer?
>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks, but I probably should have specified that I use a Wintel platform
>>>>>>> (as in DLLs  ;-).
>>>> 
>>>>>>> -michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II:http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon
>>>> 
>>>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>>> I'll look for DiskAid.
>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>>> In any case, I tried opening everything I could, and could only
>>>>> see photos and .pdf's in iBooks--no other app data.
>>>> 
>>>>> -michael
>>>> 
>>>>> NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing!
>>>>> Home page:  http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/
>>>> 
>>>>> "The wastebasket is our most important design
>>>>> tool--and it's seriously underused."
>>>> 
>>>> You are correct, it is in the Apps folder.  If you get DiskAid working
>>>> please let me know.  Thanks.
>>> 
>>> 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!
>> 
>> 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
> 
> 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.

I understand all that, and clearly you do, too. 

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