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This question has been asked before, but the solutions provided didn't work. Maybe they are outdated and this will be useful to other users too.

I have Ubuntu 18.10 and an iPad 2018 with iOS 12.1.

I'd like to easily transfer files like here. However when I click on "Documents on My iPad" I get an error 

Unable to access Documents on My iPad // Unhandled lockdown error (-2)

I've tried solutions such as this, but when I do idevicepair pair I get an error: 

ERROR: Device 00008027001E70423A22002E returned unhandled error code -5

I also tried, as suggested here, 

sudo mkdir /var/lib/lockdown
sudo chmod 777 /var/lib/lockdown

But that it still isn't working.

Seub
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I've been waiting for someone to answer with first hand experience. As no one has I'll post an answer with what I've discovered.

iOS 11 ideviceinstaller, ideviceinfo not working #510:

  • This is a very long support thread with many contributors
  • General agreement is need to recompile idevice.c
  • A patch has been created here

I'm using Android so cannot test how Apple works.

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  • As far as I can tell, this patch has been committed to the main branch of libimobiledevice a while back: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/commit/5a85432719fb3d18027d528f87d2a44b76fd3e12 – Seub Dec 14 '18 at 08:52
  • Also in the many messages there they mention having to use idevicepair with the -d (debug) switch to make it work. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Dec 14 '18 at 11:30