by jdkl81 » Apr 16th, '15, 09:58
You right and I am wrong. My repositories show both are installed. I guess that explains why I can see the iPhone in Mageia when I plug it into the USB port. I can only see it as a "camera," what I want to do is to be able to back up the files, particularly my texts and contacts (pics and vids are already saved several places) because I have no more room for them on the phone, and I need to free up some space. Also, if I use the command "ideviceinfo" in the Konsole, I get all the output that was suggested that I should get here on the forums, all correct to the best of my knowledge. If it matters, the phone is not jailbroken, iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1 (I know very old). I suppose that I am going to need to work out how to run these programs(ifuse etc) and gather the info I want from the Konsole, since the reason I missed them at first is that they are not GUI and that is the default filter on the repositories search in my version of Mageia. Thanks again for the gentle correction and thanks in advance for any future help.