is it possible to connect a USB pen drive to ipad 3 via and adapter?

Is it possible, via an adapter, to connect and access documents on a USB pen drive on an iPad3?

iPad, iOS 5.1

Posted on Apr 4, 2012 4:43 AM

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Apr 4, 2012 5:22 AM in response to Micmac104

Technically, you can use the camera connection kit to attach certain USB drives to the iPad. That said, the ONLY thing your iPad will see are photos or movies that are named with 8 characters and located in a DCIM folder.


So technically you can attach a USB, however it does not work for documents, only photos or videos.


There are some wireless drives out there, the Seagate GoFlex and the iDrive and some others, but definitely with the Seagate it's often just that you can read from or pull from the drive, you can't put your document back onto the drive to get it off the iPad.

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