usbmuxd VS unison

Popos seems to come with usbmuxd, which is a cool idea because it allows you to view the "documents" on an iphone (look into each app's sandbox), use USB tethering and theoretically transfer photos. You're supposed to get two icons when an iphone is connected. One for documents, and another for photos. I'm not getting the photos one and I have some photos I want to transfer.

Thanks! Just curious, was there a specific one that you'd noticed was tied in to what I'm seeing? I found this one, which at least by its description sounds like the inverse problem (doesn't work right after reboot, but works on subsequent attempts) but I might be missing.

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/usbmuxd (part of libimobiledevice which is in some default Linux repos)

According to the wiki page, usbmuxd should start as soon as I plug in my device, but that doesn't seem to happen. I checked and found the udev rule that should govern that at /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/39-usbmuxd.rules and it matches the rules file provided on the usbmuxd git repo. Even when I try to start usbmuxd manually my device just doesn't seem to show up, though running it in the foreground does reveal that it sees that something gets plugged in. It just doesn't seem to connect the device properly or anything. My main litmus test for if it's connected well is to run ideviceinfo. I always just get back that there is no device connected.

go to the Installation section on this page and look for Debian/Ubuntu Linux: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/usbmuxd

Libimobiledevice – open-source library to communicate with iOS devices natively\ (53 comments)

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If you look at the release notes you can see that some versions say they are protocol compatible with prior X.Y version release

https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/releases

You might want to try Unison: https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison

I highly recommend Unison (https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison)

It allows you to sync between 2 machines (bi-directional) over TCP or SSH.

Note that TCP way is not encrypted, you may use wireguard as transport layer encryption for that purpose...

You can use an external application to copy if file size is larger than an arbitrary number. (Eg: use rsync for files > 1gb)

The iOS app only syncs via iCloud or Obsidian Sync. I was in a similar situation (wanted to sync to Linux PCs and iPhone without paying for Sync), but I do have one always on Mac, so I set up a script that runs every minute, syncing my vault on iCloud with an identical vault on Synology Drive. My script basically just runs Unison once every few minutes to keep the two vaults in sync.

Unison is another alternative. I use it to synchronize my music with a Samba share and an usb stick, works great.

Unison

I've tested many file synchronization. I rely via scripts on Unison, originally authored by the computer scientist Benjamin Pierce, and now decades of tweaking by a strong open source community.

https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison

I'd love to see Darke Files get everything right that Unison gets right, that nearly all commercial projects get wrong, through a blend of arrogance and ignorance:

* Meta data. It takes a lot to insure that two copies of a MacOS file appear identical to a user. There used to be a test suite on the web that embarrassed everybody.

* Atomic folders such as ".git" or an application bundle. A prototypical example is a MacOS disk image, supported by a folder of many small files. This helps minimize incremental backup and transfer. Unison lets you specify the conflict resolution at the folder level, all-or-nothing decide which copy or fix it.

* Symbolic links. This is wildly complicated by users, sure they're right, who want special handling to hack features into sync software that isn't there. A symbolic link is just a file, with correct use the responsibility of the user. You wouldn't want sync software stopping to view your porn, right? They're just files, not the sync software's business.

I use Dropbox for various purposes because I need to, but they bungle more of this than one would expect. For example, a typical MacOS application bundle can have internal symbolic links a typical user never notices, pointing the "current" version of resources to a versioned folder. Last I checked, Dropbox expands the symbolic link into a redundant copy, wasting space without kneecapping the app.

One could go on...

I've been using Unison [1] to sync two and more computers for years. I can't recommend it enough.

[1]: https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison