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TUAW Tip: Put iPhone's File System onto your Desktop with sshfs
TUAW has talked before about sshfs, the secure shell file system, and MacFUSE, the OS X implementation of FUSE (File-system in USErspace). So it's not huge news that you can use MacFUSE/sshfs to access the files on your iPhone but it might be an option that you've overlooked. It's certainly convenient. You can open a Finder window and treat your iPhone as another disk drive. To make this happen, you must first enable ssh on your iPhone. Then, install MacFUSE and run sshfs, which will prompt you for the Server name (enter the iPhone's IP address) and Username (use "root"). Authenticate and, boom, you're good to go. The iPhone appears in your Finder source list as a new connected device.
Sshfs the Easy Way
Just earlier today we pointed out Jay Savage's great MacFUSE tutorial on Download Squad. For the lazy (or more terminal wary) among us (including me), there is a perhaps easier option: sshfs for Darwin which comes as a nice downloadable binary. Like the MacFUSE tip, this should allow you to "mount [a] remote server filesystem via ssh (using sftp protocol)." Some terminal work is still required to mount and unmount the remote server, but this seems to be substantially easier (and slightly less cool) than the MacFUSE method. Two sshfs tips in one day for the price of one![Via Daring Fireball]
