Sneaker net with an external storage device and its mated controller app is a very good way to move files back and forth between iOS devices and macOS or Windows systems. This will become even easier when iPad OS ships in the fall because then the iPads will support direct access to external storage devices ... the code required to do the job will be a part of the delivered OS app services.
Without a doubt, the easiest and most efficient way to move files between iOS and macOS machines is to use AirDrop on a fast local WiFi network. Transfer is virtually instantaneous until you get to moving hundreds of large (>500Mbyte) files en masse, then it just takes a little more time. Another extremely useful way to move files around with iOS and macOS devices is to use the iCloud services accessible to all macOS and iOS devices, and also to Windows by using the iCloud.com web services. A more generic solution in the same vein is to use DropBox.com and its apps: accessible to macOS, Windows, and even Linux. WALTR 2 by softorino.com (available for both macOS and Windows) moves most any file from computer to iOS device quickly, seamlessly, and even puts them in the right apps to use them. Much easier than mucking about with iTunes (which is going away on the next major macOS release anyway). Flickr.com app and Snapseed (image processing app) for iOS and Android proves another extremely useful tool for me: I can make photographs with my Light L16 camera, do all the processing I want in-camera using the Light supplied editing facilities, do finish editing in Snapseed, and export the finished 12 Mpixel result to Flickr.com for sharing on the web and/or transfer to macOS and Windows. This are just a few of the possibilities for moving files on and off iOS devices. Anyone who says they can't move files is simply not interested in doing so. Regards "the fucking manuals", Larry, since I was a tech support engineer, technology manager, and later a staff writer at Apple for years and years, I take personal offense when you say Apple decided not to provide manuals anymore. Apple produced terabytes worth of manuals over the years, and still does. In the olde days, they were beautiful hard and soft bound books, pamphlets, instruction manuals, etc. No one wanted them anymore about a decade and a half ago, they wanted online docs. So Apple moved all that data into web presented documents and online help. More people use them, but of course everyone like you complains about the lack of printed documentation ... that they never read anyway. They still don't read the online help and web documentation as much as they should, depending instead on half-baked hearsay and often scary "wisdom" provided by Google searches and slash-dot. Of course, the UNIX documentation suite is all there in a Terminal window, if you ever chose to look at it. So go RTFM yourself. *I* wrote, edited, and made sure to the greatest extent that I could that the fucking stuff was both there and well presented, at least within the context of my job which was development information about the Xcode IDE, compilers, linkers, various different development platform tools and frameworks, and some of the hardware that allows things like CarPlay to exist. The stress of that job over a half a decade's work very very nearly killed me, and I'm not fucking kidding when I said killed, and forced my early retirement in order to save my life. To return to the beginning of this thread, if Bill's iPad Pro is a model prior to the 2018 iPad Pro 11 and 12.9 inch models, the problem is the keyboard cover itself, not the iPad. The earlier generation keyboard cover was a lovely design, but it proved *over the course of a couple of years use* to have a problem with the flex cables ... a fragility that none of the extensive testing done with it surfaced. It takes real time and use by millions of users to surface stuff like that. Apple replaced them up to a particular serial number for a couple of years, the replacement lasted longer but nothing in a relatively inexpensive flex design is ever going to last forever. They're pretty cheap relative to the cost of an iPad Pro, and even keyboards for desktop systems have a lifespan... The best solution is to replace it with one of the dozens of compatible keyboard covers available now; the original keyboard cover is past its market lifetime and has been discontinued by Apple *because* there are so many alternative solutions now (the iPad Pro models that used them are also EoL and discontinued now anyway). The current keyboard covers for the current iPad Pro are a completely new, far far more robust design that both works better AND should prove much more durable. I'll be able to see how well the redesign worked in a couple of years (my original IPP keyboard cover lasted 2.5 years before starting to become flakey), since I use the iPad Pro 11" with the keyboard cover every day, and have been since I bought it last October-November. Despite being bashed around all over the world, on bicycle and motorcycle, and well over 5000 hours use already, it has not glitched even once. If it can do that for another two years and keep on going, I'll be impressed that it has met the challenge well. BTW: My iPad Pro 12.3 inch original unit is still going strong, after four years of heavy use. It's a superb computer, I just don't carry it as often as the 11" because of its size. G > On Jun 10, 2019, at 8:33 AM, Paul Sorenson <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are perhaps more efficient ways of moving files between iPad and > computer, but I've found the easiest is to use a Sandisk iExpand drive as a > version of sneaker.net. > > https://tinyurl.com/y4z2oul6 > > -p > >> On 6/9/2019 6:26 PM, William Robb wrote: >> And here I thought Apple stuff was supposed to be a cut above the rest for >> quality. >> I have an iPad Pro that has gone really flakey about the attached (Apple) >> keyboard. Sometimes it works, mostly it doesn’t. This started happening >> after the last update. >> I have followed the simplistic instructions apple gives for fixing (shut >> down, restart, clean the contacts, etc). >> Any advice regarding how to make my iPad into something as reliable as a >> cheap Huawei would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> >> Bill > > -- > Paul Sorenson > Studio1941 > > Sooner or later "different" scares people. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
