On 6/27/13 2:47 PM, Eisboch wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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In retrospect, I view the iPad as an iPhone in a larger form factor. I
keep track of appointments, addresses, phone numbers and more on my
iPhone, and it works well when I want to dictate a short note.

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I've had an iPad for a couple of years but never got around to even
learning how or even what to use it for other than using it occasionally
for Pandora. Mrs.E. uses hers constantly for all kinds of things
including some video conferencing application that allows her to see and
talk to the grandkids in South Carolina and playing Scrabble with about
5 people at the same time.

I finally decided to see how I might be able to use it and decided to
put backing tracks of music on it, plug it into a Fishman SoloAmp I have
at the house and play along with the songs on a guitar. Great learning
tool. I had some music files on it from when I originally got the
iPad and it worked great. All was fine until I plugged it into my PC to
transfer some new songs. iTunes opened, but said I had to upgrade to
iTunes 11. Ok. I did. It also upgraded the software in the iPad that
was connected to the PC. After that, nothing worked. The iPad no
longer appeared as a "device" in the PC file structure as it had
previously. Before the upgrade I would simply drag the music file I
wanted to transfer to the iPad listed device.

I must have spent 2 hours trying to figure out what happened. Tried
uninstalling iTunes and re-installing. Still no iPad device listed
anymore.
Gave up.

The next day I tried again. iTunes would open on the PC and I could
see the files I wanted to transfer, but there was no apparent way to do it.
I googled up iTunes help and followed the instructions. They still
said to simply drag the file to the iPad device listed in the left
column on the PC, but there was no longer a iPad device listed.

I finally figured it out by accident. Beside the music file was a
little arrow that looked just like the "Play" icon found on various
media players.
Clicked on it and a window opened with a bunch of options one of which
was "send to". Clicked on it and one of the destinations was to the iPad.
That worked, but it bugged me as to why no mention of this was in the
current instructions. So, I went back to read them again, thinking I
must have missed it. I didn't. They aren't there.

I've heard complaints from others that Apple is getting to be a pain in
the ass with all the regular updates and upgrades of their software.
It used to be Windows that had that reputation.



Apple does update its mainline OS every year or so, but not frequent
enough to be annoying, and usually the upgrades are minor and incremental.

The IO used on the phones and iPads seems to get a major update about
every eight months. The updates can be installed easily.