Not sure if this is what you need to do, but seems to work, and I'd assume my other external drives including the 'spinners' would work but would need a USB-A to C adapter (which actually comes w/ that SanDisk but would need the opposite).

On the bottom pic, I've transferred a cartoon image to my iCloud Drive, although any other of the locations (or a newly created one) could have been selected. Mechanical external hard drives are simply too slow for practical use in iPad-based video editing. In first pic right, notice that the drive shows up! In the middle pic on my Pro, I've picked the Desktop folder on the SanDisk which opens up to the right. Before Apple introduced the ability to back up all the data on your iPhone or iPad to iCloud, iTunes was the only recommended method of automatically backing up. may be limited (or not - just have not given all of that a try).īUT - I just plugged in my SanDisk (first pic below, left) to the USB-C port of my iPad Pro (I have 3 Mac computers and use 5 externals per machine for backup - this does backups of my MBPro's personal files and iOS backups). PioData iXflash 128GB iPhone iPad Flash Drive USB 3.0 Apple MFi Certified Lightning Connector, External Storage Memory Expansion for iOS Devices, Windows and Mac, Gray, (IXF-128-SG) 4. Also, the features, such as transferring files, pics, movies, music, etc. If your iPad is running iPadOS 13, you can directly move pictures from an iPad to a self-powered external hard drive.

Get OneDrive cloud storage to protect your files and access them across all. To date, I've not done much w/ 'trying' to use external drives on my iPad Pro, but do not expect to see what appears in macOS's Finder or on a Windows computer, and I cannot advise you on the best and most compatible external drives that may work w/ the Pro, sorry. Download and install the Microsoft OneDrive app for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android. Hi Richard - welcome to the forum! If not already done, read Apple's Article on the 'Files App' HERE (assume you have the most recent iPadOS installed?). Once the Command Prompt is launched, you can enter the following command on it: mklink /J C:Users AppDataRoamingApple.

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