MobileFinder & attachment= for mailto:

[remf]

saurik has released ? attachment=, a module for mail to:// URLs

attachment= for mailto:

So you can now use MobileFinder to send attachments...evidently any attachment not in /var/Media/mobile

From saurik on the modules Cydia info page:

'A module that activates ? attachment= support for mailto:// URLs in MessageUI. This affects any program that uses this library to compose e-mails, notably MobileMail. This package may be used by end users (who may want to easily link to attachments with MobileSafari) or be depended on by other packages to provide this support for their applications.'

I am using MobileFinder to try to send a small jpeg from /Library. It will launch MobileMail but wont attach the jpeg.

Has anyone succeeded in doing this?

[str8adonis]

I am wondering this myself, sometimes when I try to send app or other file it gets to the stage of putting it in my mobilemail but then either it fails to send or sends with no attachment.

[dieburnbot]

I am using MobileFinder to try to send a small jpeg from /Library. It will launch MobileMail but wont attach the jpeg.

Has anyone succeeded in doing this?

It worked for me. I used finder to attach an image I had to an email and it put it in there.

[LaZARuZ]

i sent a video that i took from cycorder took awhile to send but it did.. i had to move the video out on /var/Media/mobile and it worked hehehh nice...

[tnana]

It Works very well!! =)

One Trick - The filename cannot have spaces (if so it cannot be sent)

regards

[remf]

OK this was really bugging me.

So I decided to sit down & try to fix it.

1st guess: Turn off IntelliScreen

Bingo!

OK it was an 'educated guess'

I vaguely remembered this post from saurik

Yes it is a 'buggy monstrosity of doom ' but I like it & wish they'd fix it.

[dieburnbot]

I wish there was a way to change where Cycorder saves it's files so we could get them out of the var/media/ folder to make it easier to attach them to emails and send them with finder. Right now I have to go into the saved video folder with finder and move the file out of the folder and then email it. It would be a lot easier if I could just have it save the video file outside of the folder to begin with. I only found one method and that was to setup symbolic links using terminal, but I don't think that would work out too well.

[mobileSTU]

Hello all...
I've had no joy getting a word doc to attach to an e-mail... heck for that matter I've not been able to get any file to attach. I have the files located in the correct directory as noted in this thread. I can locate the files with Finder. I choose Send and then E-mail and it opens the mail app but doesn't attach anything. Am I totally missing something here?

Any help is appreciated...
mS

[ikecomp]

Hello all...
I've had no joy getting a word doc to attach to an e-mail... heck for that matter I've not been able to get any file to attach. I have the files located in the correct directory as noted in this thread. I can locate the files with Finder. I choose Send and then E-mail and it opens the mail app but doesn't attach anything. Am I totally missing something here?

Any help is appreciated...
mS

Ok, this was driving me crazy for the last couple of days but I finally figured out how to send any file (under the attach size limit of my email client of course) using mobile finder with the "mailto" fix notated at the beginning of this thread. If you keep these 3 things in mind, you should have no problem emailing files of any type.

1)As tnana mentioned above, long filenames cause problems so keep the name of the file you want to email to 5 characters or less with no spaces (you might be able to do more but I have not verified this since it always works for me with 5 or less)

2)make sure that you copy the file you want to email completely out of the /var directory. I created a folder on the root directory of the iphone called "email" which I copy the file I want to email to and then delete when I'm finished.

3)use your google account to email the file. I don't know why but when I tried to use my yahoo account to mail the file the process would hang and crash my phone during sending. you may be able to use other email accounts but once again, I know for certain that google doesn't have a problem emailing files.

Recap
1) 5 chararters or less for the filename
2) move the file to the root directory of your phone for mailing
3) use google to mail the file

let me know if this works for you

[dieburnbot]

Yeah mail2web doesn't work too good either. I always use gmail to send out videos that I recorded with Cycorder. I also created directory in / folder called Cycorder and I use finder to copy everything in there before I send it. Kind of a pain, but its better than not having the functionality. I just wish it was possible to edit the file save path for cycorder somehow so I wouldn't have to manually move them with finder every time. Also, I haven't had a problem sending files with a filename longer than 5 characters without spaces. I think the longest I sent was about 15 characters.

[mobileSTU]

Thanks ikecomp!!!
I created an "email" folder in the root just as you did, copied the file I wanted to send in there and BAM everything worked perfectly! The "Thanks" button was utilized!!!

[DaveiPhone]

Hey guys, here's a neat trick:

Backup Cycorder with Chronus. Then you can email the video from Chronus, with no other intervention.

[ciberkids]

i have a new triks for email attach...

connect via ssh into you iphone/ipodtouch...

i have made a new folder on / (root) directory called Videos (or any you want)

with the command mkdir Videos or any_you_want
then go into

/var/mobile/Media/Videos

and moved any video into the new folder with the command

mv * /Videos

than you can create a new symlink from the folder /var/mobile/Media/ into the folder /Videos

be careful to call the link Videos beacuse Cycorder if doesn't found that folder crash.

then command is:

ln -s /Videos ./Videos <<-- This is MUST be "Videos"

or

ln -s /any_you_want ./Videos

this trick for me works and is very fast to attach any into mail with mobile finder...

i hope to be usefull to any bye

[dieburnbot]

Thanks ciberkids, that is a great tip.

I'm going to try to clarify your directions though because they are a little difficult to follow. I would do Steps 1 and 2 in a GUI based SSH client and then do the rest from terminal. I think it's faster and easier that way instead of typing commands in terminal the entire time.

Step 1:

Navigate to / and create a folder called Videos or name it whatever you want. Mine is chmodded to 777.

Step 2:

*WARNING* Before completing this step make sure you back up all Cycorder videos that you want to keep. They are located in /var/mobile/Media/Videos. You can move them back once you are done with all of the steps. *WARNING*

Navigate to /var/mobile/Media/ and delete the Videos folder.

Step 3:

Open up terminal and SSH into your phone.

Step 4:

In terminal navigate to folder /var/mobile/Media/ by typing in cd /var/mobile/Media/

Step 5:

Type ln -s /name_of_directory_ you_created_in_Step_1 ./Videos

That's all there is to it. Now everytime you make a video using Cycorder it will show the video file in the /name_of_dir_you_created folder that way you can email from MobileFinder without having to move the file all the time.

[ddietz11]

Thanks ciberkids, that is a great tip.

I'm going to try to clarify your directions though because they are a little difficult to follow. I would do Steps 1 and 2 in a GUI based SSH client and then do the rest from terminal. I think it's faster and easier that way instead of typing commands in terminal the entire time.

Step 1:

Navigate to / and create a folder called Videos or name it whatever you want. Mine is chmodded to 777.

Step 2:

*WARNING* Before completing this step make sure you back up all Cycorder videos that you want to keep. They are located in /var/mobile/Media/Videos. You can move them back once you are done with all of the steps. *WARNING*

Navigate to /var/mobile/Media/ and delete the Videos folder.

Step 3:

Open up terminal and SSH into your phone.

Step 4:

In terminal navigate to folder /var/mobile/Media/ by typing in cd /var/mobile/Media/

Step 5:

Type ln -s /name_of_directory_ you_created_in_Step_1 ./Videos

That's all there is to it. Now everytime you make a video using Cycorder it will show the video file in the /name_of_dir_you_created folder that way you can email from MobileFinder without having to move the file all the time.

I've tried several times following these steps, and I keep getting error messages saying that -s: command not found. HELP!

[ksiphone]

if you're using winscp, you have to type... ln -s /Videos ./Videos

then make sure user permissions are set to 777 of the newly created folder. if they are set to 755, cycorder will crash to springboard and rec will be displayed on the icon.

something to keep in mind if doing this, cycorder will only recognize available space on the root partition and thus only use the root partition for recording. depending on how your phone is pwned, you will only have around 100MB of useable storage space. this is ample space for several short videos though. just something to keep in mind.

[dieburnbot]

I've tried several times following these steps, and I keep getting error messages saying that -s: command not found. HELP!

Try using Putty if you are on windows search google for: PuTTY: a free telnet/ssh client