OT: Transferring a large file between 2i iPads

[JoeJoe]

Daughter and a friend were working on a movie on an iPad, and now want to transfer the finished product to the other iPad.

Problem is:

- They are both school iPads, so they are not allowed to install apps on them. They are also very closely monitored as to what they do with them, so no cloud storage etc is allowed.

- No iTunes (and no chance of me ever installing it on any of the PC's at home...)

Any idea how to do that? Bluetooth? WiFi? etc.

PS: I can do it in seconds and using at least 3 different ways between any of the Android devices at my disposal...

[Peter Crosland]

Since they are school Ipads I suggest that the school is asked for a solution.

[Brian Gaff]

I'd actually think talking to the school and asking very nicely of the IT person might be a good start. seems a bit daft if you cannot transfer files, its not as if it could be used for cheating or anything... grin. I suspect they have it all tied up so whatever the little darlings try its not going to happen. Brian

[Bob Minchin]

I presume the school encourages their student to back up their work? That method could be used to make the transfer.

[Adrian C]

Her friend probably has access to someone with iTunes on their PC?

OTOH you could use some linux tools...

or as Peter says, chuck it back at the school. Someone there should be onhand to sort out the real world issues arising around their decision to deploy items so locked down to be unusable. Like, have they even considered that some students would like to backup their work in case the iPad gets damaged, lost or stolen?

[Graham.]

Remember the Sony Walkman Brian? A tape recorder that didn't record? Oh how we laughed.

[RJH]

Depends how large - Dropbox or Google drive perhaps?

[Dave Liquorice]

What don't you understand about "no cloud storage etc"?

[Dave Liquorice]

I think that would be a very rash assumption and the one assuming the school has a staff IT person with knowledge more than switch on, click here...

If you connect and iPad toa PC via USB does it appear as "external storage" that you can then browse about on the PC?

Or connect both iPads to the same WiFi network and see if they can see each other?

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , JoeJoe escribió:

Email it to yourself, then collect it on the other iPad.

[DerbyBorn]

Mike Tomlinson wrote in news: [e-mail]:

+1

[Graham.]

"Would that it were", as Robert Robinson would say when your idea was good, in spite of being wrong.

[Tim+]

Movie file? Quite likely to exceed the maximum file size of a lot of email services.

Tim

[JoeJoe]

Tried it - they are only allowed to email each other at the school email address, which cannot handle such a large file...

[JoeJoe]

Thanks guys for all your advice - looks like a call to the school IT guy is in order.

PS: I think I'll stick to Android for everything for the foreseeable future (as if I needed a confirmation... ;-) ).

[Tim+]

Kinda highlights the fact that the iPad was really designed for *consuming* content, not for generating it. I realise that installing apps is a no-no but it's the kind of task that "Mover" was created for. Presumably a member of staff with admin rights *could* upload it to a Dropbox account if they were feeling helpful?

Tim

[RJH]

Oversight, but even so, how can browser-sorted cloud storage be monitored in a way that any other non-app method of transfer cannot?

[RJH]

I'd ask on uk.comp.sys.mac

[Andy Burns]

But on iThings files don't belong to the owner of the device, they belong to the app that created them and are otherwise invisible, so a web browser can't open files owned by a video app, it's up to the video app to provide "send to $other app" function(s).

Since installing cloud sharing apps is banned in this case, that probably means no dice.

[The Natural Philosopher]

pretty sure I usb'ed an ipad into my linux, read stuff off it and presumably the reverse is true.

Or was it an i-phone?

Friends son died, and he wanted his weird collection of oversized women and policemen. The son was ...damaged at birth shall we say.