iPad Mini - Unable to open mobi files into another app...

As I mentioned above, I am using the "open with" feature but the Kindle app does not show because the iPad mini is not seeing the files as a mobi file. That is the process I am using with my iPad3 and it works just fine on it.

The problem is the files are not in RAR format, they are already uncompressed mobi files that load just fine on my iPad3. There seems to be a bug on how my iPad mini sees the mobi files.

Just to see what would happen I tried to unarchive the file and all the iPad mini will see is an empty folder...

They are already named as .mobi files. The iPad3 sees them just fine.

My iPad Mini, for whatever reason cannot see mobi files properly.

Here's the link to another person having a similar issue.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4989985?start=0&tstart=0

I already reprted the problem to Apple but I wanted to check here to see if anyone has found a fix yet.

Please read my posts again. I have been saying that the iPad mini, not the Kindle app, is seeing the file as a RAR. My iPad mini does not even give me the ability to select the Kindle app because it does not see it as a mobi file. When I select open with another app the Kindle app does not show on the list.

Again, the "open with Kindle" works just fine on my iPad3 because it can see the files properly as mobi files.

By "restoring" mean putting it back to factory default settings? I am willing to try this since I don't really have anything important running on it yet.

How is this the restore done?

I'll give this a try and post back on how it works. Thanks!

No dice... Also tried just erasing all data starting over again and it still can not properly see mobi files.

Hopefully there is patch for this issue soon.

After trying various different things and resetting my Mini to factory default several times I was able to figure out how to open the mobi files I have on Skydrive and Dropbox in my Kindle app.

I had to delete both my Skydrive and Dropbox apps and do it through the web browser. I was able to download the mobi file with Safari and open the file in the Kindle app.

Firest I reset my Mini setup and installed only the Kindle, Skydrive and Dropbox apps. I could not open a mobi file into the Kindle app with either The Skydrive or Dropbox app. I even reset my Mini and installed the Kindle app with just Skydrive and then reset it again and tried with just Kindle and Dropbox installed I could not get it work.

Finally, I reset again and installed only the Kindle app and used Skydrive through Safari and it worked just fine. I tested it with Dropbox and Safari and it also worked.

So basically, for whatever reason, my iPad Mini just can not open mobi files into the kindle app using either the Skydrive or Dropbox app. However, my iPad3 running the same IOS and app versions can do it just fine. Go figure...