Jweeks123 wrote:
Thank you for the heads up.
So, what you're telling me is that what I want to do is possible, although I can't do it with a standard thumb drive. However, any wireless drive would work? What about the hard drive I have connected to my AirPort Extreme? Would that work out? Thank you.
No.
Both Seagate and Western digital make Wifi portable hard drives for iOS that, like one of the Sandisk WiFi flash drive links I sent to you, have their own local, built-in WiFi hotspot that you need to connect to to, actually, accessed that drive via Wifi with the use of an additional free app that you must download to be able to access and move around all of the different types of data on the drive and, in most cases, data on these types of drive for iOS must be organised into folders that the drive app recognises, like a folder for documents, photos/images, video, movies, books, etc.
A wireless hard drive that merely only receives WiFi signals will not work.
The hard drive needs to be able to send out its own WiFi signal that you pair your iPad to to be able to gain local access to the drive.
Your best and easiest method to transport/share data is to just purchase and use one or more of one of those new SanDisk iXpand flash drives that will directly connect to your iPad's lightning connector as shown in the webpages for this drive.
This made for iDevices and iOS, iXpand flash drive will work much faster without using any wireless WiFii connection at all.
It will still need a free SanDisk companion app to access the drive and you still may need to organise the data on that drive for the SanDisk iXpand app to be able to see/access/move all of the stored data around.
Good Luck!