trying to use a usb flash drive on an ipad 2 and get a power error

a .jpg file IS a photo file.

that's why you can transfer it. So yeah, not just photos in the strict definition of 'taken with a camera', but photo files or graphics files with the .jpg (and possibly others) extension.

as far as the programming is concerned, .jpg is a photo, even if it was photoshop created not camera created.

I had about a 50/50 success rate on my flash drives. I tried a 256 meg, 2 2 gig, 1 4 gig, i think I got the 2 gig and 256 to work but I'm not sure.

It's not always the size of the drive - i've successfully read a 32 gig CF card, but how the flash drive operates. Any with bundled software trigger the 'too much power' as the software tries to run. Anything with large or bright led's triggers it. find a flash drive with no flashing light and you might be in business.

@ Skydiver119: (...) a .jpg file IS a photo file. (...)

▶ English is not my native language, but I beg to differ. Please Google " jpg " and find the right definition.

@ Skydiver119: (...) find a flash drive with no flashing light and you might be in business. (...)

▶I checked a whole lot of memory sticks with and without leds - the lack of a led turned out to be essential. The highest amount of Gigs I got to work is now a 40 Gig memory stick. I bought the cheap memory stick (no led, no software) in Northern Cyprus and it's doing a great job on my iPad 2 16 Gig.

DutchCrusader wrote:

@ Skydiver119: (...) a .jpg file IS a photo file. (...)

▶ English is not my native language, but I beg to differ. Please Google " jpg " and find the right definition.

Yes, it is possible to have a JPEG that is not technically a photo, but it is a graphic file format and the most common format for photos (highly detailed graphic renderings is what the format was originally created to handle). Most systems will use the file extension as the identifier and assume JPEG or JPG references a photo file. Skidiver's statement is perfectly valid in the context.