Copy files to or from iPhone using iPhone Drive

One thing the iPhone does not currently let you do natively is use it for file storage. Thank goodness for iPhone Drive which is a decent solution whether you need to copy files to or from your iPhone. Transferring files is pretty straight forward. The only drawback is it won’t give you full access to the entire file system. The application offers a familiar Mac OS X look and feel.

File storage on iPhone

Well, there are quite few of them who have regretted the fact that you can’t use the iPhone as the storage device. It’s absolutely wrong; iPhone can be used as a storage device if you have a Mac. The means to that minor miracle is Ecamm Network’s $10 iPhone Drive. It is a small utility that displays the free storage area of your iPhone much like a Finder window in the column view. You can add the files to the iPhone either by clicking the copy button or by dragging a file or a folder into the iPhone Drive window. To copy items from the iPhone, simply drag them from the iPhone Drive window to a location on your Mac or choose them and go the Copy from iPhone button. You can also delete items by selecting them and clicking the Delete icon at the top of the iPhone Drive window.

IPhone Drive isn’t the perfect sneaker-net solution considering you’ll need to have a copy of the program on any Mac connected to your iPhone. But for someone who’s been looking for some way to use the iPhone for storage, it’s a heck of a good start.

Posted on Jul 30th, 2007 by Philip King in Software | 11 Comments

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11 Comments to “Copy files to or from iPhone using iPhone Drive”

  1. on 06 Nov 2007 at 11:40 am1Matthew

    Found a way to use my iPhone as an external drive for the PC too – TouchCopy. Will also copy music and videos straight into iTunes …
    http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/touchcopy/

  2. on 23 May 2008 at 2:15 pm2ash

    i have a pc windows xp is there any way i can get into my iphone’s files from the pc or is there a software that i can download for the iphone ????? wb thnkz

  3. on 23 May 2008 at 2:16 pm3ash

    jus seen the other comment above no worries

  4. on 02 Oct 2008 at 8:24 am4LittleHoiLei

    Let’s try this FREE software:
    http://i-funbox.com/

  5. on 17 Mar 2009 at 2:39 pm5zg

    thanks for the tip! this http://i-funbox.com/ thing works quite well

  6. on 24 Mar 2009 at 4:53 pm6Irina

    Yeah! http://i-funbox.com is very simple and works well indeed.

  7. on 12 Oct 2009 at 7:35 pm7Alexander

    Thanks very much guys
    http://i-funbox.com ir really great. Very simple and absolutely free, not like other crap that can be found on the net.

  8. on 12 Nov 2009 at 2:05 pm8Jason

    i-funbox will not work with itunes on the 3Gs

  9. on 12 Nov 2009 at 5:37 pm9Wei

    Just tried. ifunxbox works on 3GS. I could drag and drop items into it. Jason, could you explain more what doesn’t work with ifunxbox on 3GS?

  10. on 12 Nov 2009 at 7:06 pm10Jason

    Hi. It says the Itunes on my phone is not recognizeable

  11. on 12 Nov 2009 at 7:12 pm11Jason

    I’m looking for a program where I can move pics or songs from my pc or mac to my iphone and vice versa. i-funbox doesn’t seem to do that. Only copy from the iphone to PC. Am I missing something?

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