So my iPhone was getting filled up with photos and videos because every year the camera gets better and each photo grows in size from 1M to 2M to 4M to 8M to 16M to oh my God why are these photos so large?!
I figured out why they are getting larger, so Apple can charge more iCloud storage fees! Or Google if you use an Android which I also have.
So of course you can plug your phone into your Mac or PC and follow the instructions and pull your media onto a local drive to save some money and make sure your media is safe in your hands until a wildfire hits you and the “fireproof” safe melts like butter, but I digress.
My point in this post is to help folks who plug their phone into their Linux box! I did so and opened up my file browser and it could not show anything and was giving me an odd error of “Failed to normalize”
After much poking around in syslog and online, it turns out the problem was the NAME of the phone! It was named “Doug’s iPhone” and I believe the apostrophe was causing the file browser to have an issue, so I decided to take out the non-letter characters and renamed it “DougsIphone” and that did the trick!
Now I have sucked out half the media and boy is that phone feeling like a new device!