Comment 9 for bug 1718554

I could not replicate for my latest photos this evening what I reported in #8.

Yet by fiddling in various ways, after a reboot I was able to coax shotwell to import the photos on the iPhone. I then had command line access to those photos in the location where shotwell dropped them.

As for /run/user/1000/gvfs: the robotic gphoto name appeared there on and off, but when it was there it appeared to be empty from the command line.

As a comment on my #8, it would seem that the appearance of the robotic gphoto name in /run/user/1000/gvfs has something to do with a prior running of shotwell. (The shotwell executable in Xenial links to two gphoto runtime libraries.)

I don't know what is going on.

It's certainly less than transparent access through the lightning port to the usb file system on the iPhone.