SD card iPad camera connector does not work

So what am I doing wrong? done everything that has been suggested so far but still nothing, 10 jpegs saved from Macmini on to SD card in a folder called DCIM, inserted into cardreader in Ipad and it comes up with No photos to import. Any ideas anyone?

Pennie-

Be sure the photos have 8-character names plus suffix, just as if they had been named in a camera.

Examples are IMG_0925.JPG, MOMSPIES.JPG, IMGP0233.JPG, WaspNest.jpg, P6160043.JPG, MVI_0143.MOV.

Fred

In case this can help anyone else, I recently bought a cheap adaptor from eBay for a few quid. I've found it only works when the battery is well charged. Can't say exactly what %, but if it's low, nothing. Even when it's well charged, I get my pictures and post them or whatever, then quite a while later, I get the message that iPad doesn't support this device-doh!

Holy crap! It works! 8 charecters plus suffix. Tried moving some old photos that I had renamed and it wouldn't work. Did 12345678.JPG and there it was. Why didn't they say that on instructions!!!!

For those who have tried all of the above with no results, you try what worked for me: blow really hard into the female 30pin connector on your iPad. Maybe there is a more technical way to clean out that connector.

Ok I am having this same problem. Tried all the obvious ( reformatting, making sure file directory and file names are correct, restarting ipad). Nothing. The ipad does not even know it is connected as far as I can tell. Any help would be appreciated. I am using an ipad mini, apple cck, transcend 16gb sdhc card, and files directly off brand new canon eos t4i. Thanks in advance.

Jst1111-

i understand the ipad Mini uses the newer "Lightning" connector. Is there a new Lightning Camera Connection Kit?

If you are using the old 30 Pin Camera Connection Kit, how are you adapting it to your Lightning connector?

Fred

There are now two separate products for this functionality:

SD Card reader

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD822ZM/A/lightning-to-sd-card-camera-reader?f node=3a

Camera USB

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD821ZM/A/lightning-to-usb-camera-adapter?fnod e=3a

The old Camera Connection Kit will work with Lightning using the:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD824ZM/A/lightning-to-30-pin-adapter-02-m?fno de=3a

I am using the sd lightning adapter, which is new for the new connector. Honestly, having read a lot if posts about problems with various setups, I cannot figure out what the problem is, except

That maybe the actual connector is broken. Seems like a lot if people just give up and send te connector back, which I may yet do, but I really want it to work.

Figured it out. Connector was defective. Exchanged it and new one works great. FYI.

I also realised this 8-characters is the solution. Be sure to save in 8-characters name.

Do "videos" have to be in the DCIM folder (not home else I would try)? I have an SD card with 1) photos under the DCIM folder from my DSLR and videos under PRIVATE from the video camera, .MTS files. I also have .mov and .m4v files at the top level on the SD card. Plug the card into the iMAC and iMovie and Aperture auto-run and all is fine. Plug the SD card into iPAD4 with Apple CCK via lightning. I can import the photos, but cant see or import the video.

I don't think that MTS video files are a format that can be transfered to/played on an iPad. You will probably need to convert them on your computer to a format supported by the iPad. I convert videos to MP4 format and they transfer and play just fine. You'll need a video converter software for your computer but several freeware software programs are available to you. Just search the net for "free video converter."

Yes.... in the DCIM folder

The most important takeaway that I got from reading this comment thread is that in spite of physical appearances the Device is NOT an "SD card reader", but is only designed to import photos from SD cards that are named and organized in a specific fashion...directly from a camera according to a set of hard coded rules:

1. 8 character names
2. located in a folder named "DCIM"

I'm sure this was intended to make things easy for users...but instead it makes it harder to deal with. By hard-coding the device (or the driver for the device) so that the user doesn't have to pick a folder...and then not explaining this fact, lots of people are getting confused and frustrated when they try to do something perfectly reasonable ...like put a collection of resized and/or renamed and/or edited pictures on an SD card and then try to add some or all of those pictures to their iPad.

Would it have been so difficult to have a popup that said "No DCIM folder found on SD card"?