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iPod touch HOW-TO: Get around the application space limit on your Touch

mmfy said:
Is there a recommended SSH client for Mac OSX or is it built in already??
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SSH is already built into the system and can be used via the Terminal. Do a man ssh and scp if you have any questions. If you want GUI SSH love then I recommend Fugu. It is free, easy-to-use and straight forward.
 
CrockettGTO said:
I tried this and it works great however, I believe it is causing some problems when trying to install updates through the installer. I am wondering if it the update default path is looking in the native folder and not seeing the redirect.
Trying to install the BSD Subsystem update and am getting a package download failed error. Also when SSH new themes to the following location /var/root/Library/SummerBoard/Themes/ it will not use the theme wallpaper tried to enable and disable theme wallpaper

Edit: Found it: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/374093/
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I got the same error when trying to installig the BSD Subsystem, but then I tried once agian, some hours later and I could. Try again, and maybe you can install it.
 
I did it with mobile terminal, it works wel! Only the first time I tried to move the Applications folder not all the apps had enough permissions. This resulted into a Applications folder with 50% of the apps in it. The dock was empty etc:D. Eventually I was lucky that Terminal wasn't set right. So I chmodded the files and did the rest of the Apps manually. The removed the empty Applications folder and made the link. In the first case I wasn't able to make the link, because there was allready a directory called Applications. So people please chmod your files in the Application folder first! Thanks after all
 
can somone plz help me

i got into putty and typed in the mv/Applications.... thing
then it said zsh...couldnt move the file
then i tried again and it then said mv-not .....
and now when i rebooted my touch the circle spiny thing keeps spinning
how can i fix this without restoring it??
 
864646 said:
can somone plz help me

i got into putty and typed in the mv/Applications.... thing
then it said zsh...couldnt move the file
then i tried again and it then said mv-not .....
and now when i rebooted my touch the circle spiny thing keeps spinning
how can i fix this without restoring it??
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Do you have the BSD subsystem installed from the installer
 
CrockettGTO said:
Do you have the BSD subsystem installed from the installer
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ya

where is the application's folder originally
wat is the path??

i just found out i have an applications folder in my applications folder
(if that helps)
 
is there way to do this but on an ipod that was jailbroken with touchfree??
 
So I upgraded to 1.1.2 and I am having a very hard time trying to reverse this hack to get my iPod to do something other than the spinning refresh circle of death. Any advice?
 
Copying only 3rd party apps to /Widgets folder.

There is a variation on this solution floating around, where you only move the 3rd party apps to a /Widgets folder, then simlink back to the /Applications folder.

I've searched and searched for a tutorial or guide on how to do this one, which would allow you to toggle the 3rd party apps on and off with a command-line tool fairly easily.

I'm still learning, but pretty sure I could work it out, if someone could tell me:

Does the /Widgets folder already exist somewhere, or are we creating it ourselves, and where?

Also, has anyone compiled a list of the 3rd party apps that do not like to be moved? Labrynth is one. Trying to save myself a little trial-and-error time.

I've got lots of other questions, but I'll hunt around and post them individually in the appropriate threads.

I find the community that has sprung up around the iPhone and iPod Touch is actually more amazing than the little devices themselves. They are very cool. But the jailbreak, 3rd party apps, and solutions like this one are just so much cooler.

To think before my iPod, I got excited about mt-daapd on a NAS device, and DD-WRT on a router. Talk about unlocking the potential of a device! I'm checking my email on something that ought to just have been a wide-screen video iPod.
 
Just got the warning about running out of space, so now i want to transfer 3rd party apps to another folder/directory using cyberduck on my mac. So, first of all, does this method work with 1.1.2? And will i run into problems in the future when i try to update or sync?
 
I'd recommend just symlinking the Fonts folder to start with. That really gives a *lot* of free space, enough to keep your Apps where they are. I have 102 MB free on the system partition at the moment. :)
 
dumb question...

Sorry for the dumb question, but I'm not sure where I type in all these commands. I use Cyberduck on my Mac, and am familiar with moving files around to different directories, but I have no idea how one enters commands while in Cyberduck. Any help? Or do you not actually enter these while in Cyberduck?

Thanks in advance
 
Just use Terminal, you might not be able to do it in Cyberduck (I have no idea).

Fire up Terminal, then enter the following command to connect to your Touch-

ssh -l root your.ipods.ip.address

It should ask you for your password. After that, you can enter the commands to tweak your apps location.
 
hecks said:
I'd recommend just symlinking the Fonts folder to start with. That really gives a *lot* of free space, enough to keep your Apps where they are. I have 102 MB free on the system partition at the moment. :)
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Can someone please tell me the exact commands for this? Sorry I'm noob with the terminal:eek:
 
madmaxmedia said:
Just use Terminal, you might not be able to do it in Cyberduck (I have no idea).

Fire up Terminal, then enter the following command to connect to your Touch-

ssh -l root your.ipods.ip.address

It should ask you for your password. After that, you can enter the commands to tweak your apps location.
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Okay, well I ended up entering the commands using Terminal on my Touch. It worked, though I only moved the Fonts folder. Wasn't too sure about moving the Apps (as far as future problems that might arise), so I just stuck to the Fonts. However, i have still gotten a few messages warning about lack of space, saying that I should delete Pictures, Movies, and/or Music. It's weird, cause I don't get it if I download a huge file through installer (tested this downloading Apollo, then deleted it later), yet it comes up more frequently when installing small SMB themes.

Thanks for the help though.
 
Excellent

Excellent!. I had been getting application space warnings on my Touch and this saved me. I was nervous about doing it, but after reading through the entire thread (and a few others) thought it was worth the risk. I followed the instructions on the first post without any problems using Terminal on my Macintosh.

Great Thread!!!!
 
thanks for the guide my problem is I followed this step by step but when I done the last thing to list things I never got a line similar to this

Code: 
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root admin   25 Oct 12 22:31 Applications -> /private/var/Applications

is there a way to check if this has completed?
 
I successfully moved my applications to the private/var/ location and created the symlink.

I am pretty sure that the original Applications folder is still in it's original spot so I need to delete that particular folder. I don't know where that is however. Can anyone give me the actual path of the folder that I need to delete? I would really appreciate it.
 
hartmanjames said:
I successfully moved my applications to the private/var/ location and created the symlink.

I am pretty sure that the original Applications folder is still in it's original spot so I need to delete that particular folder. I don't know where that is however. Can anyone give me the actual path of the folder that I need to delete? I would really appreciate it.
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If you MOVED it (as per the directions in this thread), it's not there anymore. Since you created a symlink with the name of the old folder deleting it will delete either that link or the target directory (not sure how symlinks work in that regard).
 
mrgreen4242 said:
If you MOVED it (as per the directions in this thread), it's not there anymore. Since you created a symlink with the name of the old folder deleting it will delete either that link or the target directory (not sure how symlinks work in that regard).
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Agreed, how silly of me. The amount of space that I have available, even after moving fonts as well, just doesn't seem to be that much ( 125Mb free out of 300Mb). Any suggestions?
 
Thank you very much
Literally 10 minutes before I read this thread I had gotten my first space limit warning in Installer
Thanks once again
 
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