Ray, let me try something and be back with you :) On 3/4/17, Ray Foret jr <rforet7...@comcast.net> wrote: > Was hoping I would be able to hook up my iPHone directly to my Mac using USB > and use an actually accessible transfer app to take care of it. Jail break > is not an option nor is Drop Box it looks like because I get transfer errors > in spite of the buttons all being there and not grayed out. > > > Sent from my Mac, The Only computer with full accessibility for the blind > built-in > > Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, > > Still a very happy Comcast XFinity Voice Guidance, Mac, Verizon Wireless > iPhone7+ and Apple TV user! > >> On Mar 4, 2017, at 11:02 AM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Ray, >> >> I believe that with IOS applications you are dependent on what that >> application wants to make available. Generally, if the share activities >> area allows you to share to DropBox or iTunes then you should be in pretty >> good shape to get the file on your Macintosh. Other than that, I believe >> that a Jail Break solution is your only other alternative, an even then >> you would have to do some reverse engineering for each application. >> >> Is there perhaps a share via e-mail option for what you want to share? I >> always claimed that eMail was not a file transfer protocol, but in these >> days of automatically using iCloud for mail file attachments, consistent >> use of MIME encapsulation, and encryption mail services it often seems to >> be more secure and reliable than using ftp, sftp rcp or other alternatives >> especially if you don't have an account on the both systems. >> >> In general the Apple environment has been moving away from user controlled >> cross application support to instead use restricted use extensions that >> only allow controlled access from one application or service to another. >> This improves security of the systems but makes it difficult when the user >> does not fit into the standard mold. I just found on my work computer I >> was unable to rename a text file with an html extension except by going >> into the terminal. >> >> If this type of thing interests you, there was a great article last month >> I can written by a former Apple employee about how Extension services are >> not as flexible or powerful as the Scripting functionality in MacOS and >> how if Apple reduces support for this, then power users will be forced to >> other platforms. >> >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Jonathan Cohn >> >> >> >> >>> On Mar 3, 2017, at 11:09 PM, Ray Foret jr <rforet7...@comcast.net >>> <mailto:rforet7...@comcast.net>> wrote: >>> >>> Okay, >>> >>> Does anybody out there know of a good and actually accessible third party >>> transfer tool with which I can transfer content from my iPhone to my Mac? >>> And please don’t mention iTunes because that will not do what I want to >>> do. Everything I have tried has basically just plain sucked because it’s >>> not accessible. Even iMazing is not accessible. It seems that even >>> anytrans, (which used to be reasonably accessible) has gone down the >>> tubes. It would appear, (so far) as if there is not a single third party >>> transfer app that is worth much a damn!!! Any thoughts? Oh, and before >>> you say Drop box, that won’t do it either. 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