I have a LaCie, a Western Digital and a WD passport. Right now they're hooked to my Mac mini. Is there a way for my iPad to access them or airplay what's on them to my iPad?
On Nov 10, 2018, at 3:02 PM, chrislaarman@yahoo.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
I can access my NAS using wifi, I can access microSD-cards to some extent (using a Lexar card reader for Lightning), and I can access non-NAS external drives using a USB wifi host. More in detail:
NAS: I happen to have a QNAP TS-421 with two 3TB drives in RAID (and two bays empty). I have grown to use it daily, and I appreciate the way QNAP tries to make accessing their product transparently accessible.
I use several file managers and viewers with it, some by QNAP.
Normally, my iOS devices and the NAS are on the same home wifi network. However, I have also connected to the NAS from a distance, using mobile data.
SD-card: I haven't used my microSD-cards for a few years now, but I have some infrastructure to mount them across platforms (Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows) and connectors (Lightning, USB-B and -C, microUSB), but also cameras without network capability. Note that SD-cards may have been formatted for different file systems. (Up to 32 GB can be handled by FAT32, developed by Microsoft. I tried to standardize on 128GB cards with sufficient speed for recording in 4K.) Your computer or other device must have the matching file system reader installed.
I have forgotten, to what extent I could access the card from iOS back then, and iOS has evolved since. I seem to remember that I was limited to Lexar's free companion app, a (then) limited sort of file manager and viewer.
USB to wifi: I do have these access points for USB 2.0 drives. I soon stopped using them, as my then iOS devices couldn't handle the numbers of files on my 2TB drives well.
Hope this helps. :-)
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Chris
reacting to:On 10 Nov 2018, 21:15 +0100, Alice Saunders lwr32@mac.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com>, wrote:
I'm with you, Chris. iPhone and iPad are my main tools. Mac mini mid-2012 for Skype once a week and that's about it. I use the 99¢ subscription to Apple iCloud for storage. If I could access my external HD that stores my movies with my iPad, is be set to get rid of my computer altogether.
On Oct 28, 2018, at 6:44 PM, chrislaarman@yahoo.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Is that so? (It may well be! It may depend on your aims or work flow.)
You see, I don't use iTunes at all. Well, maybe once a year on an aging Windows/Linux system that I use for two vintage applications. I haven't run macOS for over a year. I default to iPads and iPhones. For comparison I have some Android devices ready.
But most of what I want done, I can achieve on iOS devices, with rather heavy reliance on several clouds, including iCloud for keeping them backed up.
So to me, there is no relation between iOS any any other operating system or platform. But to you, there may well be.
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Chris
reacting to:On 28 Oct 2018, 22:20 +0100, sanjaya kanoria kanoria@me.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com>, wrote:
The problem with iOS 12 is that it requires my Mac OS to upgrade and if I do so my iPhoto program will cease to work. So now having invested in the iPhone XS max it cannot sync with iTunes on my computer.
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