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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Source: http://iphone.natetrue.com/OtherErica/MedUtils-0.1.tar

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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...

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Mandy

I used TouchCopy for the PC to enable disk use on my iPod Touch. Works for the iPhone too.
http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/

October 31 2007 at 9:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris

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.

October 17 2007 at 4:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

matt

Okay, this YouTube video for an iPod touch flash drive explains things better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VOy-5pdy58

September 26 2007 at 4:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

matt

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.

September 26 2007 at 3:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rick

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!

September 23 2007 at 8:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Simon Arch

The 16gb iPod touch sells for $399. Hence the "$400" in the headline.

September 22 2007 at 12:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Karl Childers

400? I thought the touch started at 299.

September 22 2007 at 11:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

nicolas

when i type in ls /var and it lists a bunch of things...what am I looking at?

September 22 2007 at 1:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rex

Is there no pretty GUI?