Disk access to iPhone

Hello there.
Anybody know of a free decent application that allows disk and file access to the iPhone?
I have no intention of jailbreaking the device, but between the 4 of us we have loads of music, films and pictures that I want to consolidate and rationalise.
Thanks
ephpod used to be great on Windows - a Mac equivalent that's free would be ideal.

crabacle wrote:
but between the 4 of us we have loads of music, films and pictures that I want to consolidate and rationalise.
This statement demonstrates quite well why Apple do niot support disc use on the iPhone. It could be that you own the copyright to all the movies and music to which you refer, however using the iPhone to exchange them is n't a sensible method regardless of the legalities.

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SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_137137-09 64-bit
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HOSTID
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1 1 0.5% 100%
2 2 0.5% 100%
3 3 0.4% 100%
MAU
ID CPUSET
0 (0, 1, 2, 3)
MEMORY
RA PA SIZE
0x8000000 0x8000000 2G
VARIABLES
keyboard-layout=US-English
IO
DEVICE PSEUDONYM OPTIONS
pci@780 bus_a
pci@7c0 bus_b
VCC
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primary-vcc0 5000-5100
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VSW
NAME MAC NET-DEV DEVICE DEFAULT-VLAN-ID PVID VID MODE
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SP
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MAC
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0x84f9e7ae
VCPU
VID PID UTIL STRAND
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1 5 0.0% 100%
2 6 0.0% 100%
3 7 0.0% 100%
4 8 0.0% 100%
5 9 0.0% 100%
6 10 0.0% 100%
7 11 0.0% 100%
8 12 0.0% 100%
9 13 0.0% 100%
10 14 0.0% 100%
11 15 0.0% 100%
MEMORY
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NETWORK
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I got my AE and Seagate FreeAgent Pro hard drive
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t
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Dmesg output: http://pastebin.com/kJcbZVBT
Thanks,
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Last edited by yourealwaysbe (2012-11-11 14:41:24)

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proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
dev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=1962404k,nr_inodes=490601,mode=755)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
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tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
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cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
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cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
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hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda4 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
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top - 15:52:02 up 16 min, 0 users, load average: 0.36, 0.41, 0.30
Tasks: 104 total, 2 running, 102 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 0.1 us, 0.2 sy, 0.0 ni, 99.8 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 3930516 total, 779240 used, 3151276 free, 51616 buffers
KiB Swap: 2626620 total, 0 used, 2626620 free, 285284 cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 20 0 32552 3432 1924 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.51 systemd
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 ksoftirqd/0
4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.14 kworker/0:0
5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H
7 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/u:0H
8 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
9 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
10 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
The lag tends to occur when first tabbing into a directory. On the second time
tabbing through things seem to be fast -- i guess that's cached somewhere.
editedit: i also tried switching back to initscripts, with no improvement, so i guess systemd is off the hook for the remaining problems
Last edited by yourealwaysbe (2012-11-11 15:13:57)

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47.67
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177.90
109.23 MB/sec [4K blocks]
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99.36 MB/sec [256K blocks]
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4.31 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read
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25.42
2.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write
182.78
58.51 MB/sec [256K blocks]
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93.31
0.66 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read
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31.99 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Dennis

Fast User Switching-- Disk Access Error

I have created a Standard User Account with no Parental Controls. I have not had any problems whatsoever logging in to iVisit (video conferencing) as an Admin, but when I log into the Standard account, and try to log into iVisit (using the same log in information as my Admin account, and this is what iVisit suggests I can do) I get the following error message when I click the log in button:
Disk access error. Check free space and write permissions.
I've tried logging out of my Admin account first, then logging into the Standard account before I try iVisit, but that didn't work. I've opened up the Standard account as much as possible (I think) to remove any restrictions, and even selected the option to allow user to administer this computer, but that didn't work either.
Another piece to this puzzle, is that iVisit Help suggested that I install iVisit under the Standard User, just to be safe. But during the install process, the installer quits, and I get an error message that says it can't continue.
Does anybody know what's going on? I really appreciate any help! Thanks
Powerbook G4 1.33 Mhz Mac OS X (10.4.3) External OWC, 512 RAM, iSight

I don't know anything about iVisit, but it sounds like it may not be behaving exactly as an OS X installer should — placing files in spots that only admins can access. I would try this as a next step:
1. Uninstall iVisit.
2. Make your standard account an admin.
3. Try and install iVisit through the newly admin'd standard account. Hopefully this avoids the error/crash.
4. Confirm that iVisit works through this account.
5. Switch it back to a standard account and test again.
I don't know if this will fix your problem, but it's worth a shot and may help narrow down the cause of the problem.

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