Q: How to transfer files via USB cable to iPad?
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May 5, 2016 3:44 AMby iDM@iCloud,Sure, this drive will let you do just that.
http://m.gearbest.com/usb-flash-drives/pp_307912.html?currency=CAD&gclid=CP2JpZb gwswCFYkCaQodkSYIKA
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May 5, 2016 3:57 AMby MichelPM,OR
one of these
https://www.sandisk.com/home/mobile-device-storage/ixpand
OR a wireless solution.
https://www.sandisk.com/home/mobile-device-storage/connect-wireless-stick
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May 5, 2016 5:43 AMby Michael Black,You can use iTunes to transfer files to individual apps, if they support the file type, or to the appropriate iOS app (videos to the video player, for example, music to the music app, photos to the Photo's app, etc). Or you can use iCloud from your PC to place those files into your iCloud drive storage area and use iCloud drive in iOS to download them and open them in an app that supports the file type.
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May 5, 2016 6:22 AMby LACAllen,Your question was can you access your iOS device like your friend can access his Android device. No.
You can absolutely transfer files using iTunes and a USB cable. Unlike an Android device.
That device is for copying files FROM an iPad to somewhere else, or streaming from it for videos. You still can't copy and paste into the iOS filesystem, because there isn't one visible to you.
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May 5, 2016 6:46 AMby MichelPM,To use these special flash drives for iDevices, for the SanDisk devices, SanDisk uses their own proprietary apps to access their drives and access the iPad's operating system to move data back and forth from the their drives from various apps.
SanDisk's apps are available in the iOS App Store for their various iDevice compatible drives.
To see what these drives and apps combinations do seardh the App Store for SanDisk
I use their 128 WifI USB SanDisk connect drive that uses a bulit-in WiFi transmitter to send out a WIFi signal that your iDevice can connect to to wireless transfer , back and forth between iDevices and the wireless drive, various types of data like documents, PDFs, eBooks, videos and images.
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May 5, 2016 6:46 AMby NewbMacUser,I'm starting to understand how these devices work!
I just want to transfer files to my iPad Mini in a way doesn't involve the internet at all and is just an isolated and direct file transfer. Which is the safest way for me to do this? I mean "safe" in the sense that there's no chance that the file transfer is linked to the internet at all.
Thanks a lot!
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May 5, 2016 6:51 AMby MichelPM,These Wifi style drives DO NOT ACCESS the Internet, at all.
They generate a bulit-in, isolated WiFi signal of their own to connect up to the drive wirelessly via Wifi signals.
No Internet involved.
The other San Disk Flash Drive I linked to is one that you can directly connect to an iPad, but it maybe needs to be accessed by one of SanDisk's own proprietary, free apps that allow the drive to be seen and accessed by the iDevice it is connected to.
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May 5, 2016 6:56 AMby MichelPM,The computer and iTunes method of backing up, transferring and syncing up data, back and forth from computer to your iDevice, requires no connection to Internet, either.
The only time you need Internet connectivity is when you are, actually, using your iPad online and for doing app updates and/or iOS system upgrades/updates.
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May 11, 2016 8:46 PMby NewbMacUser,Thanks a bunch for your reply!
I thought using something like the San Disk Flash Drive you linked that's connected via cable would be more secure as it's a "closed connection" but if I need to install an app from San Disk to make it work it seems less secure because the app could report back information to the internet..?
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May 12, 2016 12:24 AMby MichelPM,No.
The SanDisk App does NOT access the Intenet. It is only for accessing the Wifi drive only over the drive's own WiFi signal transmitter.
Why the paranoia over security and accessing the Internet?
Your security concens are coming through loud and clear and seem overreaching and/or of super critical concern or nature?
Are you a government official?
Work for govenment police or a sensitve government/military agency or military division?
Work for Private sector online security agency or underground government agency?
Work for private manufacturing company that has high security and other NDAs?
Work for an entertainment agency or film compnany/effects company the has high security?
Some sort of computer hacker?
What gives with all the security concerns?
If you have concens about the Wifi aspect of one of SanDisks drive, I supplied you with another SanDisk option that is a direct conncted drive to the iPad that may or may not need an app to singularly access this drive.
In any event, these drives use apps that accees the storage drive only.
There is no Intenet connection being made to these drives. These storage drives and apps do not send any data or pesonal info out to the Internet, at all.
These drives are portable, personal drives that no one has accees to, but you.
The app, also, may have a piece of software that allows password/passcode encryption of the drive, also, if you are concerned about the security of the data on those drives.
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Jul 13, 2016 7:11 PMby NewbMacUser,Wow. Your replies are appreciated!
It seems like the safest way to transfer files to my iPad Mini 3 from my Windows PC is to use the USB cable that came with the iPad in the Apple box, but I've never even tried to do this before...Is it a simple process?
I'm not a government official and I'm DEFINITELY not a hacker or doing anything illegal. I just want to make sure that my privacy is protected.
