Werner Obermeier wrote:
All I want to do is bring two MP4 files from WinXP to iOS 7.1.1 iPad.
http://i.imgur.com/FO0rSM8.jpg

It's not "my" WinXP machine, and the owner decidedly doesn't want to
install iTunes (for all the reasons everyone already knows so we
certainly don't need to hash them out here for the umpteenth time).

I only need a couple of roughly 1GB MP4 files copied over from WinXP
SP3 to the iPad by the easiest way possible. Both devices are on the
same local subnet.

When I connect the iPad to the WinXP machine by USB cable, the iPad
shows up, but the document hierarchy (particularly that of VLC) does
not show up. (http://i.imgur.com/FO0rSM8.jpg)

On the iPad, it keeps asking to trust this computer (which I have OK'd
very many times - but the iPad just keeps asking and asking and asking).

If bluetooth works on the iPad, or if WiFi works on the iPad, I'd be
very happy, just as happy if the USB cable would just work on the iPad.

This task should have taken about a minute, but after a half hour of
trying, I still haven't been able to mount the iPad onto WinXP to
copy the two MP4 files over.

If all I want to do is bring over a couple of MP4 files from WinXP
SP3 to the iPad VLC private documents directory, what's the easiest
way to accomplish this when both devices are on the same network?


The easiest way is to either send them to yourself as an email attachment,
or put them in on of several online file storage places like Dropbox, Box,
or any other cloud storage place.

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Sent from my iPad Air