How do I save all of my iBooks pdfs, located on my iPad2, to an external hard drive?
IPad – How to save iBooks pdfs to an external hard drive
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Best Answer
I'm not going to post the church boy answer, but if you jailbreak your device, you will have full access to the file system.
There is probably a legitimate way to do this without jailbreaking, but having jailbroken devices myself, I would simply enable SSH (the root password is
alpine, which you should change immediately) and eitherrsyncorscpthe files to your external hard drive volume (which in my case is mounted on a Mac Mini (also runningsshd). The hard drive will be mounted in/Volumes.I forget the exact path to your Camera Roll, but the main directory you are looking for containing the photos and videos is
DCIM.If your external drive is a Windows computer, then there are also tools in Cydia that make file sharing with Windows a breeze. Or if you're like me and have to run Cygwin with
sshdon all of your Windows boxes, the same rules as above would apply, but the path to the external drive would be/cygdrive/[drive letter].If you are on a Mac and enable SSH to your iPad, just do the following in Terminal on your Mac (if it is a Mac):
It would be a good idea to use
screenfor this job so that it doesn't fail from a broken pipe in case you have a lot of images. If you want to go that route, you could do something like thisscreen -LS image.copywhich would put you in a new shell session. Then run the commands above, and detach from the session withCtrl+A-D. This lets the process run in the background. If you want to come back later and check the progress, runscreen -x image.copy.If you are going to do something like this, you should make sure that you are hooked up to power and don't have auto-lock set, or else it will end your session prematurely.
This may be a horrible answer, but I always default to command line, because it never fails me.