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MX 17 b3 Review

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I do not know if this was previously posted. It is a review of MX 17 beta 3 by English Bob. He is live streaming at the time. My main reason for posting is that a viewer signs in and claims the MX device mounter will trash an iPhone. This after Bob is extolling the fact that it is in MX 17 with great enthusiasm. I do not have an iPhone but that has not been the experience of the devs who have tested it. Any comments?

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Is the concern perhaps because more than the DCIM folder can be accessed? Perhaps a user could randomly delete files that would prevent the device booting?

The iPhone 6 I tested the utility with is certainly still working - I would have heard from my Granddaughter in no uncertain terms otherwise!

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chrispop99 wrote:Is the concern perhaps because more than the DCIM folder can be accessed? Perhaps a user could randomly delete files that would prevent the device booting?

The iPhone 6 I tested the utility with is certainly still working - I would have heard from my Granddaughter in no uncertain terms otherwise!

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I doubt he even tried it and do not know what he is basing it on. Could be anything from doing what you indicated to Apple propaganda on connecting to a Linux machine. English Bob did say he was going to contact D_O about it.
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I've just had a Google, and there are several long-established pieces of software for both Windows and Mac machines that let you browse the files on a connected iPhone. There are no reports of anything going awry that I have found.

You would not be able to do anything fatal to the device unless you had previously 'jail-broken' it.

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Used it here on iPhone 6+...no problems...no trashing.

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I tried it on 3 iPhones and an iPad w/o problem.

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Jerry3904 wrote:I tried it on 3 iPhones and an iPad w/o problem.

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#8 Post by timkb4cq »

libimobiledevice works using Apple's protocols, and on an unrooted device, you can only see the parts of the filesystem that Apple allows the Windows & Mac programs to see. You could erase your data but not likely anything that would brick the phone.

Apple could indeed in a future version of IOS break libimobiledevice so it wouldn't access their devices anymore - but if it can't access, it won't be able to trash anything either.
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