by captain paranoia » Tue Mar 22, 2016 5:56 pm
I don't have iTunes installed; I hated the monstrous, megalomaniacal, cpu-gobbling bloatware when I installed it to support an iPad2 I was given.
I can get MM to talk to the iPad by installing AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi
I think... just checking processes running... yes, it's running, but sitting there doing nothing apart from taking 13.5MB.
I'm not entirely sure, because my software repository Software/Media/Apple has that and CopyTransDriversInstaller (and Bonjour.msi) in it too, and I can't remember which I actually installed...
Oh, yes: it's in the Wiki:
<quote>
For those who don’t want to install iTunes, there is a hack:
1. Download the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64Setup.exe is you're using 64-bit) file
2. Rename the .exe to .msi
3. Get 7-Zip to extract only what you need from the iTunes installer archive.
4. Open up the zipped file (right click 7-zip -> Open Archive, open .rsrc directory) and extract AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi (AppleMobileDeviceSupport64.msi for 64-bit), and QuickTime.msi (Quicktime lite recommended instead)
4.1 iTunes v9.1 - In the .rsrc directory, opend the RCDATA directory and extract the CABINET file. Rename it to amds.cab, open that file again with 7Zip, and then extract the .msi files as above.
5. Install these files.
</quote>
I don't have iTunes installed; I hated the monstrous, megalomaniacal, cpu-gobbling bloatware when I installed it to support an iPad2 I was given.
I can get MM to talk to the iPad by installing AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi
I think... just checking processes running... yes, it's running, but sitting there doing nothing apart from taking 13.5MB.
I'm not entirely sure, because my software repository Software/Media/Apple has that and CopyTransDriversInstaller (and Bonjour.msi) in it too, and I can't remember which I actually installed...
Oh, yes: it's in the Wiki:
<quote>
For those who don’t want to install iTunes, there is a hack:
1. Download the iTunesSetup.exe (or iTunes64Setup.exe is you're using 64-bit) file
2. Rename the .exe to .msi
3. Get 7-Zip to extract only what you need from the iTunes installer archive.
4. Open up the zipped file (right click 7-zip -> Open Archive, open .rsrc directory) and extract AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi (AppleMobileDeviceSupport64.msi for 64-bit), and QuickTime.msi (Quicktime lite recommended instead)
4.1 iTunes v9.1 - In the .rsrc directory, opend the RCDATA directory and extract the CABINET file. Rename it to amds.cab, open that file again with 7Zip, and then extract the .msi files as above.
5. Install these files.
</quote>