mick wrote:

Quite honestly I don't like iOS at all.

I have plenty of iOS devices along with Android & Windows & Linux devices,
where iOS is the most limited of all the common consumer operating systems
by far.

Mostly in order to tolerate iOS, you have to "just give up" on doing the
simplest of things, where I have iOS for only two reasons:
a. To learn, and,
b. To interface with the ladies in my family who are non technical

At Christmas, I bought four $130 LG Stylo 3 Plus Android phones at Costco,
and this month I bought 2 iPads at Costco to give as gifts to my family,
where I added a third $300 iPad for me to use to help the others learn how
to use them.

If it wasn't for those two reasons (a) learning and (b) helping others, I
wouldn't be using iOS since I've long ago proven there is zero app
functionality on iOS that isn't already on Android while there is tons of
app functionality on Android that isn't on iOS (e.g., loading any launcher,
automatic phone recording, recording wifi signal strength over time
graphically, etc.).

I tolerate the iPad because
that is what my wife wanted and then only for Facetime.

Yup. In my extended family, the ladies are non technical, and the younger
and older ones /love/ iOS devices, while the guys are technical and hate
them. You can draw a line by gender, out of a score of people, and it's
almost perfectly aligned, although some of the ladies use Android too.

I tolerate iOS only for two reasons:
a. To learn, and,
b. To teach.

It does have
its uses but I have not had much inclination to really explore it to
the full.

I've asked on the iOS newsgroups for /years/ if there is any app
functionality on iOS that isn't already on Android and all they can come up
with is marketing trademarks (like AirDrop(tm) brand of ad-hoc file
transfer services, where Android has plenty of them, or ApplePay(tm) brand
electronic payment services, again, where Android has plenty of them).

After years of searching, I've concluded there is zero app functionality on
iOS that isn't already on Android, while it takes seconds to find app
funcionality on Android that isn't on iOS (e.g., just the ability to have
an app drawer app is app functionality that iOS doesn't have, for one of
the simplest examples). The iOS user has to create a "junk" folder instead
of having an "app drawer" app for heaven's sake.

I don't like Safari, even less Chrome.

I'm with you on both of those.

The problem is that Safari, in my tests above, did things that Chrome
didn't, so I'm forced to use Safari if I want to do those things. I use Tor
Browser Bundle most of the time anyway, which is Firefox but which doesn't
run on iOS (so that's another limitation of iOS although there are plenty
of apps pretending to be the Tor Browser Bundle functionality on iOS).

I use Firefox on the iPad.

So do I but in reality, I almost never use any mobile device with a web
browser unless I'm on the road and hence forced to.

The best thing to do is to make your own folders on the iPad in the
Local directory using FE.
Then using FE you can transfer any files from windows to those iPad
folders for viewing in whatever app you like.

This is a good idea. Thanks.

Right now, for whatever reason, File Explorer won't connect to Windows, so,
I may need to start over. Sigh.
http://i.cubeupload.com/XLmc84.jpg

There are no usable error messages so I don't even know how to
troubleshoot.