Originally Posted by capted

I appreciate everyone trying to help. It's gotten to a point where I want to make it work because I refuse to have
my ipad get the best of me.
Siddys, thanks but I am on a Mac not Windoze although it looks like a Mac version is forthcoming.
I have been able to see my ipad on my Mac with iFile, but I can't get past the root.
I noticed there is a short cut for var, but clicking on it or trying to drag a movie file to it does nothing.
I can't believe that I paid for these apps, ftp on the go, ifile, VLC media player and I can't find any docs or tutorial.
I'll keep butting my head and maybe something will happen.

Please continue with suggestions.

capted

Quit beatin your head in and install xbmc from cydia....much betta and slicker....cause apparently no one else uses vlc anymore. Besides I believe there are more members using xbmc than vlc.

Hi Poser,

I do have openssh installed.
I installed netatalk and sure enough, I was able to navigate to /var/mobile/media from my imac.
Problem is that when I try to add a 938.4 MB file, I get the message "The item “2 - xxxxxxxxxxxx.mp4” can’t be copied because there isn’t enough free space."
My ipad shows that I have 11.1 GB free space.
Any ideas???

Originally Posted by Poser

if you want access to your iPad root from a Mac, download netatalk(free) from cydia,...... REBOOT(not restart or respring) your device after netatalk installs....and it will show up in your finder(wirelessly).

do you have openssh installed from cydia?

PowerUp - adds reboot, respring, and safe mode options to the standard power off slider as well as providing some additional styling options(activator options)

if i find some time, i will try a video transfer to see whats up, but don't count on it, cause i don't know what to transfer right now, even for a test run.

hope someone else can chime in.

i think you should drop it in the VLC folder instead of there, i will check on that.

to get to the vlc folder....var/mobile/application and my vlc folder is this E436CB24-16D1-4882-AEDE-28C0AFB98313
and i have a couple videos in there(in the documents folder of vlc)..... maybe if you put the videos there.

my vlc folder size is 2.82 GB.

i just added a 51mb .m4v music video to that documents folder for vlc.....transferred and played fine.
took maybe 40 secs to transfer.

Thanks again, Poser

The problem is more academic now as I watched the files on my desktop with VLC.
BTW thanks for the PowerUp suggestion.

It just pi$$es me off that I buy apps and there are no user instructions for dummies.

I followed the path you suggested: var/mobile/application and there is no VLC folder.
There are folders for VLCStreamer and VLCStrFree but no plain vanilla VLC folder.
Being new, I installed the others before I found that I needed Cydia to install VLC media player.

I tried to remove VLC media player to reinstall it but it wiggles with no (x) to delete it.

The most pressing problem now is since I can access all the folders in my ipad from my imac with netatalk is that I can't transfer files
because it is reported that there is not enough free space on the ipad.
My settings shows there is 11.1 GB of free space.

It is sad to see Steve go which only reinforces the belief that the good die young.

Looking forward to ios 5 and the untethered jailbreak.

capted

Originally Posted by Poser

to get to the vlc folder....var/mobile/application and my vlc folder is this E436CB24-16D1-4882-AEDE-28C0AFB98313
and i have a couple videos in there(in the documents folder of vlc)..... maybe if you put the videos there.

my vlc folder size is 2.82 GB.

i just added a 51mb .m4v music video to that documents folder for vlc.....transferred and played fine.
took maybe 40 secs to transfer.

OK guys here is the latest.
I can access my ipad from imac with netatalk.
I can transfer files that are less than 750MB but no larger.
I show 18GB free space. Anyone know how to free this up?
I can load files onto a SD card and use the ipad camera connection device to see them.
I click on the file and select VLC as the app to open it.
It takes a couple of minutes before VLC starts.
I can do the same with Buzz but I still have the no sound problem.

My advice is to use netatalk and the cheap ipad camera connection device off ebay for around $6.00.
You can then play a file with full audio and video with VLC player.

I am going to look on another thread and see if I can find why I can't transfer a file larger than 750 MB with 18GB free.

Thanks to all who responded to my post.
Consider the VLC problem closed.

capted

App Store - Phone Drive (+File Sharing)

Does everything I want.
There's a lot more utility in it but it's like the $22.50 slide rule I had at Georgia Tech.
I could only use about $3.00 worth.

I wish I had found this first.

Ed

Originally Posted by Poser

App Store - Phone Drive (+File Sharing)