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iPadOS 15: Files App Gains NTFS Support, Progress Indicator, and More
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Maybe that works in theory but my real-world experience says otherwise.
I've had an exFAT-formatted USB drive get completely corrupted after connecting to iPad. Drive was completely unreadable and formatting wouldn't work. Had to rebuild the MBR.
Yeah I remember taking a photo and then editing it on my iPad with Apple Pencil on Photoshop in the 90’s, and then airdropping it to my 5K iMac, watch and telephone to set as the screen background.
On my Mac, I use Paragon software to enable NTFS write-support. This is for any external drives which I need to connect to a Windows device or tv. The application works really well, I've never had file corruption problems other than with improperly ejected disks from the tv or Roku (there's no 'eject' USB device option!).
Did they ever fix where you have to keep the app open and tap the screen every minute to be sure it doesn't go to sleep because it'll stop copying?
Today after I read this post I tried to access my Samsung external HDD NTFS format file with my Ipad Air 4 running IPADOS 14.6 and it already works. It can read but cannot write, but is already working.
Apple employee here? Why?
Time capsules were discontinued 3 years ago or so and those old 5400 RPM drives in them are on the their last legs and they are really just bog standard old school routers. The internal drive is really mean for time machine only. The argument you could make is that you can connect a USB drive to it for "cloud" storage but again bog slow usb drive connected to a USB port that the traffic is going to have to route over old AC wifi.
I use Jettison & Automounter on Mac for SD card safety, as it stays inserted 24/7 (music)
File Browser on iPadOS/iOS/tvOS is great.
I keep hearing contradictory statements on whether or not to eject/unmount SD cards, USB drives (directly attached to Mac) or router (NAS-lite) when sleeping or shutting down my Mojave Mac, so I just use those two apps just in case…
File Browser on iPadOS/iOS/tvOS is great.
I keep hearing contradictory statements on whether or not to eject/unmount SD cards, USB drives (directly attached to Mac) or router (NAS-lite) when sleeping or shutting down my Mojave Mac, so I just use those two apps just in case…
The NTFS support is said to be read-only, so it doesn't matter. And FAT filesystem handlers are generally made to promptly write at least metadata (directory and allocation information, timestamps, etc) on the age-old assumption that people may remove removable media (going back to floppies with manual eject) without following any particular procedure. So there shouldn't be much filesystem corruption happening anyway.
Having said that, wherever there's a mount, there should be an explicit unmount possible, rather than a forced unmount after the media has already been yanked. But many people will do the wrong thing anyway, so it should generally work regardless.
Most Unix-like OSs unmount (logically eject) filesystems as part of shutdown (ancient Unix didn't explicitly flush or even have a clean flag, so once down to single-user, one would sync, wait a bit, and just hit break, and checks would be run at every boot; but nothing that runs un-emulated on remotely modern hardware behaves like that anymore). An in-memory sleep might become something else if the battery runs down, so it's possible that an unmount might not always happen when it should, but I don't see much risk there, esp. if you have backups. Unmount of network shares, might depend on the sharing mechanism whether it matters; usually it doesn't too much, because there's too many things (client, server, network) that could fail anyway, so they're designed to cope.
Default app assignment is nice, but if there's more than one app that can handle something, I want the option to choose rather than be locked into the default (i.e both Open and Open with
. And I'd kind of like the option to choose what the default is (like on a Mac in Finder Get Info, choosing Open with: and Change All; or scrounging the Default Apps preference pane).
2035 is optimistic. We still don't have native write access this on the Mac after almost 30 years.
Even if the OS doesn't cache writes, you don't know that all processes that have file handles open don't still have a buffer that isn't flushed.
And, I mean, if you copy a large file to a disk, and pull out the disk in the meantime, what's the OS to do? The OS can't anticipate that you were going to pull the disk out, so you end up with inconsistent data no matter what. Reducing buffers can only mitigate that (and comes with its own host of issues).
Well no. What happens is IT support in the workplace just bans third party file managers.
I just want a file manager as functional as MacOS finder. That’ll do.
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You can do this now, select all the files, and then click move and then move it to "On this ipad"