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iPhone access from Mac - not same as PC

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askywalker

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Aug 18, 2007
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When I connect my iPhone 4 to my Windows 7 PC - it shows up in 'My Computer' and I can easily grab the photos and Videos from it.

When I connect to my Mac - I can't seem to access it from the Finder. I can open apps like iPhoto and pull them into iPhoto, but I am wondering if I am missing something simple to be able to access it like a drive?
 
The iPhone doesn't show up as a drive in Windows. It shows up as a read only camera source. In Mac OS X you are not missing anything, because there is no mountable drive to access on the iPhone.
 
Intell said:
The iPhone doesn't show up as a drive in Windows. It shows up as a read only camera source. In Mac OS X you are not missing anything, because there is no mountable drive to access on the iPhone.
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It's not read only. You can delete photos from the iPhone using it too.

It's a very useful feature.
 
Daveoc64 said:
If it was read only, you wouldn't be able to delete the files either.

A CD is read only.
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You can read something carved in rock. You can push said rock off a cliff. But you cannot carve on said rock, without special tools.
 
I think you guys are arguing semantics at this point. Point being he can do stuff on his PC with the iphone he cannot with the Mac and he finds it useful.
 
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