Comment by river0 | January 17, 2008 | 1:03 pm

Speaking of utilities, how about a GUI app that reveals how much room is left in the part of the iPhone that stores third-party apps (Installer used to give that information)? If such a utility already exists, I’d appreciate your pointing me to it. Thanks.

Comment by Tinman | January 17, 2008 | 3:39 pm

@river0

You can pretty much do that right now with Erica’s Tapp utility (it’s a separete download).

Put a new command in Tapp:
df -h

This will show you the total space, the space used, and the remaining space by disk0s1 (system) and disk0s2 (media).

Once it’s setup in Tapp you just open Tapp and tap the df-h command. Works well.

–
Mike

Comment by river0 | January 17, 2008 | 6:28 pm

@Mike

Nice! Tapp is just what I was looking for, that and the correct new command to pop in. Thanks for pointing me to both. Now off to see how to borrow some of the media space for the system.

BTW, what is a helpful resource about command line commands for beginners?

Thanks again.

Paul

Comment by muppel2 | February 18, 2008 | 4:51 am

Hi,

is it possible somehow to use bdump for extracting pictures, sms.db etc (content in general) from mdbackup files, not only plists?

Best regards,
Sebastian

Comment by cisbell | September 6, 2008 | 9:35 am

Hi Erica,

Is the blist utility available any longer? I can’t seem to find it and it appears I have over 5000+ mdbackup files to go though.

Thanks!

Comment by Erica Sadun | September 8, 2008 | 6:21 pm

blist is now subsumed into mdhelper. Use the list feature

Comment by fulvio | October 7, 2008 | 3:10 am

Hi. Just 2 simple questions..

1. Where is bload application? I tried to find it, but nothing in the package seems to perform what bload should do.
I really need it to reconstruct the mdbackup file from a modified sms.db

2. Why Sqlite Browser shows different contents if I open sms.db created with your software and syphone.db (created with syphone..)? THey both contain the SMS coming from the same .mdbackup file!

Where is my mistake? Thanks..
Fulvio

Comment by Erica Sadun | October 7, 2008 | 7:19 am

Fulvio, you’ll need to take a look at my 5-article writeup about iPhone backups at blogs.oreilly.com/iphone to see why bload was a dead end. It’s all about properly signing manifests.

Comment by fulvio | October 7, 2008 | 8:17 am

Thanks a lot, I understand the problem..
I’m trying too.. Understand how this backup-structure works looks not that easy.
And I’m not a software-oriented genius (like you..)
Thanks, really, for your time and your help.
Ciao

Fulvio