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Jetboaters Lieutenant
- Messages
- 421
- Reaction score
- 141
- Points
- 152
- Location
- Chandler, AZ 85249
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2009
- Boat Model
- SX
- Boat Length
- 23
Mel - here's a quick tutorial on file access on an iDevice. For the most part, user's files on the iPad are application based. So instead of looking for a place to store the files (like on a computer, with its hard drive) the application stores the files for you and keeps track of their location for you as well. So if you have a word processor, the WP keeps track of them for you and they are accessible only from within the WP. You could add your checklist to your iPad by either buying a WP app for it and adding it that way, or you can use the free iBooks to store PDFs if you can get it into that format. That's what I did. I have a Mac, and I just printed your checklist into a PDF file and added that file to iBooks. That way, I have it anywhere my iPad or iPhone is and can reference it as needed.
Getting files to your iPad: The main conduit for that is when (if?) you sync it with iTunes. There is a place there to add and delete files for access by specific apps. I can expand on this further if you use iTunes with your device. If you don't use iTunes to sync your device, the secondary workaround (useful if you are using iBooks and PDF files) is to email the file to yourself. When you receive the file via email, tap and hold on the file attachment, and it will bring up a little menu of options, one of which is to "open in iBooks." Once you do that, iBooks will permanently store it there for future use unless you delete it.
Sending: Once you have a document in an app (like iBooks) you use the send icon (in iOS 7, it looks like a square box with an arrow pointing upward) to email or print a document. That process is designed to be universal, so anywhere within any app that has files that can be printed or emailed, you will see that icon appear and can use it to email or print whatever you are looking at (as long as it is something that can be emailed or printed, of course.) Works for documents, web pages, photos, videos, and so on. The choices available within that send icon vary by app (some things can only be emailed or printed; some things can be posted directly to Facebook, sent via text, and so on) but the procedure will always be roughly the same. The send icon is for sending; where it can be sent is based on context.
Hope that helps a little...
Getting files to your iPad: The main conduit for that is when (if?) you sync it with iTunes. There is a place there to add and delete files for access by specific apps. I can expand on this further if you use iTunes with your device. If you don't use iTunes to sync your device, the secondary workaround (useful if you are using iBooks and PDF files) is to email the file to yourself. When you receive the file via email, tap and hold on the file attachment, and it will bring up a little menu of options, one of which is to "open in iBooks." Once you do that, iBooks will permanently store it there for future use unless you delete it.
Sending: Once you have a document in an app (like iBooks) you use the send icon (in iOS 7, it looks like a square box with an arrow pointing upward) to email or print a document. That process is designed to be universal, so anywhere within any app that has files that can be printed or emailed, you will see that icon appear and can use it to email or print whatever you are looking at (as long as it is something that can be emailed or printed, of course.) Works for documents, web pages, photos, videos, and so on. The choices available within that send icon vary by app (some things can only be emailed or printed; some things can be posted directly to Facebook, sent via text, and so on) but the procedure will always be roughly the same. The send icon is for sending; where it can be sent is based on context.
Hope that helps a little...
