iPad Air: downloaded avi movie from sandisk wirelss flashdrive, where is it?

Try a hard restart: press power and home button at the same time, until it shuts down. In the worst case, you can simply erase the tablet. Don't back it up first, and set it up as a new device.

 

Best user experience in the biz. Your experiences do not count OP.

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Do a hard reset. By the way; you uploaded it, not downloaded it...

 

The file would have been in the Sandisk WiFi app before you reset your iPad.

 

There's no file browsing app like in a computer. Apps on iPad are sandboxed -- they can only see files in their own "directory." I don't know why the Sandsik app isn't showing the avi file, but if you want to get an avi file into a media playing app that plays non-iPad compatible media formats, your best bet is to somehow transfer the file directly to that media player app. Or convert the file to mp4 before putting it onto Sandisk. What you are trying to do will at best create two copies of your file on your iPad (one in Sandisk app and one in your media player). There is also a file size limit to copying files from one app to another, so if your file is too large, it won't transfer at all.

 

That is wrong terminology. I see this being quite a common mistake...

 

"Up" is going away from you, "down" is coming towards you. If you are on a computer and sending a file to an iPad, you are uploading it to the iPad. But if you are on the iPad, then the file is being downloaded to the iPad.