I have documents in iPages on my iPad which do not come up in apps-file sharing in iTunes. Therefore, I am not able to sync them. Any ideas?
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When you open pages on you iPad there's an icon with an arrow on the left hand bottom end, when you tap that it brings up a menu which includes 'send to iTunes', select that and when you next sync it will appear on the iTunes page for you iPad.
Thanks very much. I wonder if you could also tell me how to get rid of documents in the file sharing table in itunes? I have extra documents there which are not in iPages (or anywhere on my iPad) and it is confusing, so I would like to get rid of them.
Anna, there is two parts to sharing, backing up, and using documents between your iPad. Firstly with Pages on your iPad is the icon where you selected 'send to iTunes'; the other is in iTunes its self. when you have your iPad connected to your PC or Mac, and iTunes is 'on', you need to click on the iPad under Devices, this will show your iPad in iTunes, with the Summary, Apps, Music, Films, TV Programs, Podcasts, Books, and Photos icons at the top of the window. Click on Apps and it will reveal the iTunes window where you can see your iPad home screen and any other iPad screens and a list of Apps you want to sync or Un sync with your iPad.
Scroll down the iTunes screen and you should see File Sharing. Below this heading are the Apps where you can share files between your iPad and PC. Click on Pages or any other App you have like Numbers or Keynote and to the right of the list is a place where documents or files will show up. In this window you can add or remove documents or files from your iPad. You can save documents or files you created on your iPad to your documents folder on your PC, or visa versa by clicking 'save to....' to save to your PC document folder, OR 'add' to add to your iPad. Once you have done this simply sync your iPad again and VIOLA! Remember every change you make to this requires you to sync to make the changes take effect.
OH I forgot to add any documents yo don't want in the Pages Documents list in iTunes, click on the document in the list you want to delete and hit the Delete key on your keyboard. Too easy.
Thanks for your replies to my questions. I was trying to 'sync' Pages with iPad as happens with contact, mail, etc. But it seems from what you have said and from all my frustrated work last night, that this is not possible. It is a matter of transferring the document again when a change has been made or a new document created. If you could tell me if I am mistaken in this, that would be great!
Anna,I have read through the guide in Pages as well as the Apple support page (link is at the bottom of the guide) and all I could determine is the need to 'send to iTunes' so that any changes you made to the document will be then accessible when you open the document in your work processor on your PC. It is true that sync'ing like mail is not going to be the same, however regardless of any method used to transfer a document from one device to another there is always going to be a need to do some sort of mucking around to achieve this. I use a MacBook, Mac Mini, iPad, and an iPhone, and some documents and files I must use either iTunes or Dropbox to access and share between all these devices. Depending on whether I use Pages, Numbers, Keynote, or other non Apple programs will determine how I access and share documents.
Don't be discouraged, the iPad never promised to be the be all and end all of convenience.
Anna, your post has prompted me to follow up with Apple the desire to see Pages, Numbers, and Keynote have a much more fluid and integrated sync experience just like you want, in the same way Mail might sync.
While I have been happy to 'send to iTunes', then add (and replace) the existing file, open the file in Word, add to iTunes (and replace), sync with iPad, copy from iTunes, have a document with the same name and now with a number added to it (because there is now 2 files with the same name), delete the original, 'send back to iTunes, rename it in iTunes so it doesn't have the number added to the file name..........GOD this is all too hard! LOL There must be a better way to change ONE file, sync it and update the file on each device without all this replacing and renaming.
Goodmorning, and thanks for thinking over the issue. If you come up with anything, I would appreciate hearing about it. I am enjoying my iPad. When I got it, I did not really know what it could do and I was assuming that it would 'sync' documents. I used a pocket pc for a number of years and I could sync with that, but there are a lot of things the iPad can do that the pocket pc could not!
Both of you raise excellent points. I'm very new to iPad, though not to predecessors like Palm OS and a whole raft of PC and ProDos iterations. The iPad is a very different concept with the application owning the document, rather than borrowing it from a file structure.
Our company is exploring alternatives for sharing annotations in more real time. So far iWork looks attractive, but does not offer a solid link to PCs (a reality in our corporate world).
Somehow GoodReader can flow documents quickly, even exporting to dropbox (though I suspect this is limited to your personal dropbox only) Apple should be able to expand their saving functions.
...Doug
File Sharing in iTunes not seeing documents
