Make MobileFinder more powerful on jailbroken iPhones
Sep 24, '08 07:30:01AM
Contributed by: humanbulk
If you've got a jailbroken 2.x iPhone and use MobileFinder from the App Store, here's a way to give it even more power. By moving MobileFinder to the top-level Applications folder on the iPhone (instead of in the /User/Applications folder), you can then create symbolic links to folders from other applications such as Cycorder or MxTube. Once linked, you can then easily access these folders via MobileFinder. Note that you'll need to have SSH installed on your jailbroken iPhone to use this hint.
- SSH to your jailbroken iPhone in Terminal.
- Find the MobileFinder app inside /User/Application folder; it will be inside one of the folders with long names.
- cd to that folder.
- Type the following in Terminal:
$ mv MobileFinder.app /Applications/MobileFinder.app
$ cd /Applications
$ chown -R root MobileFinder.app
- Turn the iPhone off and back on. If you can't see MobileFinder, install anything else (via Cydia, or a freebie from the App Store). This will force MobileFinder to show up.
- Launch MobileFinder, which will now display the /User/Documents folder.
- Via SSH, create symbolic links in the /User/Documents folder. For instance, for the MxTube folder, the command would be ln -s ../Media/MxTube MxTube.
Enjoy!
[robg adds: I haven't tested this one...]
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