Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone
Use your iPod touch as second-rate $400 USB stick
You know that "Enable disk use" checkbox? The one that appears in iTunes for most modern iPods? That checkbox isn't there for the iPod touch. The touch provides no built-in disk access utilities but if you have an Intel Mac, and aren't afraid of the command line, you can use these Media Folder utilities to copy files to and from your touch.
The utilities, which are based around a modified version of iPhuc, work with the iPhone as well as the touch and copy files to and from the Media/Documents folder.
Update: PPC Mac users download this copy of iPhuc, rename it to util and stick it into the media utilities folder. It doesn't run as cleanly as the version I converted--lots more extraneous text--but it works on PPC.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ben said 5:31PM on 9-21-2007
yay! a hack! finally!
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Johnny Thrash said 5:36PM on 9-21-2007
.Mac account... thumbdrive... ftp sites... web space... why not 1 more place to store stuff? :P
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vulgo said 6:05PM on 9-21-2007
store down...
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ian said 6:17PM on 9-21-2007
wait. will this work to port iphone apps over to the touch?
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byaah said 6:27PM on 9-21-2007
@5
Nope, not yet.
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byaah said 6:27PM on 9-21-2007
@5
Nope, not yet.
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hugo_r21 said 8:29PM on 9-21-2007
does this work with PC's as well?
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Rex said 9:46PM on 9-21-2007
Is there no pretty GUI?
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nicolas said 1:39AM on 9-22-2007
when i type in ls /var and it lists a bunch of things...what am I looking at?
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Karl Childers said 12:00PM on 9-22-2007
400? I thought the touch started at 299.
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Simon Arch said 12:12PM on 9-22-2007
The 16gb iPod touch sells for $399. Hence the "$400" in the headline.
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Rick said 8:08AM on 9-23-2007
Does this work with PC and will an update of the Ipod Touch be able to stop this program from working? The removal of "drive mode" from the new Ipod touch is the only thing holding me back from buying this device!
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matt said 3:47AM on 9-26-2007
Huh? Is there anymore information on how to use this? Does it require jailbreaking first? I know nothing about how to hack the iphone, but my ears perked up when I read about disk use and I'd love to use it. Thanks for the PPC version too, since that's what I'm using.
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matt said 4:10AM on 9-26-2007
Okay, this YouTube video for an iPod touch flash drive explains things better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VOy-5pdy58
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Chris said 4:50PM on 10-17-2007
I got this to work but when i tried to putfile a dmg that was 2.5gb it kept saying:
"util(1588,0xa000ed88) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region"
Is there anyway around this? I assume it is because of the file size. I am using the ipod touch on a ppc.
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Mandy said 9:41AM on 10-31-2007
I used TouchCopy for the PC to enable disk use on my iPod Touch. Works for the iPhone too.
http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/
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