Had been doubtful this would work and upon initial searches, didn't think it should. But I found a way today to manage your iPhone photos with your linux machine without any tricks or hacks. Read on for the super easy and quick way.
Originally, I was using my iPhone to take pictures of projects I was working on around the house as well as at work. I was then emailing myself pictures, five at a time, and then saving each image by hand from thunderbird on my linux machine. This was obviously a painfully slow process considering I was doing this on a daily basis with at least twenty or so images.
It's so quick and simple, I couldn't believe it at first. I will simply break it down into a few easy steps.
1- connect your phone via the usb cable and make sure it is mounted (manually or automatically with hal)
2- fire up digiKam
3- select the Camera option and then Add camera
4- click Auto-Detect and it should find a camera called 'USB PTP Class Camera'
5- select this camera and click ok
6- now click camera again and then choose the 'USB PTP' camera and it should open a viewer window that will load all your phones photos and movies for previewing
7- now you can select to import all, delete from camera, and so forth as you usually would with digiKam and other photo management software
See... couldn't be simpler, could it?
UPDATES:
- Thanks to tracyanne via reply at lxer.com, F-Spot also works for managing your iPhone photos.
- You can grab the geotagged information by looking in the geolocation tool in digiKam.
Next up will be obtaining GPS information via EXIF and tacking our photo locations to a map...
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