Why no mdelper for Windows
Erica Sadun | 8:20 am | August 22, 2008 | Admin
Mark writes: “I’ve had the bad luck of not being able to restore my iPhone-data with an iTunes backup, a common known problem by now for 2.0+ users…
But then I came across mdhelper and have seen on a couple of forums that it can extract all the lovely data right back out of the nasty mdbackup files - but only if you’re on a mac!
Do you have a Windows version coming out?? There are a lot of people who would be extremely grateful… I, myself, lost all my vacation pics, including pictures of my distant girlfriend in Germany (I live in Denmark), which is tearing me up inside… So please, please help.”
Hi Mark,
I mostly write iPhone software because it’s fun. No one is paying me for all the Erica Utilities, etc. Porting the software to Windows would involve buying a Win machine, starting up on OpenStep development, etc. In other words, it would be arduous if I were being paid and unthinkable for a hobby.
Sorry that I don’t have better news for you.
That having been said, you can buy a used Mac Mini, copy over your mdbackup files and use mdhelper on a Mac.
Best regards, — E
5 Comments »
Comment by volkspost | November 10, 2008 | 2:48 am
Hi Erica,
I have been using your tools for a while now, thanks a lot for your ongoing support to the community. Besides my real-life job I am helping out a bit over at hackint0sh.org’s forum. I have mentioned mdhelper several times there for users needing to extract data from the backup.
One actual request popped up an error i cant deal with. Its a Windows user who copied the Backup folder over to an iBook. Executing ./mdhelper he is getting “dyld: incompatible cpu-subtype”.
I thought the old CPU might just not be supported, asked him for specs, here is what I got: pu speed 500Mhz/128meg memory/cpu type Power PC 750.
One more: Every now and then users users complain to get an error “segmentation fault”. I never had this but it popped up in the forum.
Sorry for bothering, would be great if you had an explanation. BTW: the users are pointed to download mdhelper at http://ericasadun.com/ftp/Macintosh/mdhelper-universal.zip
best regards
volker
Comment by mnejmantowicz | November 22, 2008 | 9:03 pm
Erica,
Just got your book love it. I am trying to delete unwanted .mdbackup files from the iPhone backup as it contains .mdbackups for old apps that I have deleted. Can this be done and if so it would be a great utility. Something like http://supercrazyawesome.com/ but with delete capabilities.
Keep up the great info.
Maciej
Comment by dmac | January 29, 2009 | 6:57 am
Hi, Erica.
I just downloaded your mdhelper and I’m getting a Segmentation fault every time I run it. I’m on 10.4.11 on a MacBook Pro. I can send you the ktrace output if that would help.
Is there something I can fix to make the program runnable?
Comment by hillie | February 2, 2009 | 12:01 pm
Erica,
is mdhelper open source/free software? If so, perhaps someone who knows Java or some other language which can be of use in a Windows environment could port mdhelper to Windows.
I am one such person who knows both Cocoa and Java.
I notice there is a rift between Windows and Mac iPhone software. The purpose of this comment is to find out whether or not mdhelper or other software is open source, and to let others like Mark know of the possibilities if they happen to be programmers, or maybe there are some people who would like to port the stuff to Windows.
I personally have both Mac and PC, I hate Windows but it’s the only thing that runs a majority of games.
Comment by Erica Sadun | February 2, 2009 | 12:04 pm
I’m trying to convince Landon Fuller to cocoatron mdhelper over to Windows. First I have to clean up the code — a lot.
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