How to copy files from SD card to iPad3 (not jailbroken) using free software

the_syco

Using this with the iPad3 and the "lightening SD card reader" (which doesn't work on your iPhone5 I think). Said cable costs €30.

From your PC or MAC, create a folder called DCIM on the SD card, and another folder called 100DICAM within that folder.

Copy random files into that folder. Files must be 8 digits long.
Examples; bugsbuny.avi tomatoes.mkv bob28472.avi

If the file names are not 8 digits, the iPad won't see it.

Plug the Apple SD Card Reader into the iPad, and plug the SD card into it.
The Photos window will pop up, and it will be on the "camera" tab. If it comes up with an error, the files or folders are not named correctly.

Select the files you wish to import. and import them. This will import them into the library*

Install "i-FlashDrive HD" from the App Store. It's free. Open it up, and click Local Storage and then the + symbol to the bottom left of the screen. Click From Library and select the Last Import folder and select the file(s) that you have imported and click Done. This will then copy them to this app**

If the app doesn't open the files (or there's no sound, or whatever), click Edit on the top right of the screen, select the file, click the blue arrow to the right of the file, and in the drop down menu click Open In... and select your player (I use AceVideo). Then wait a bit, depending how big the file is, and open your player. i-FlashDrive HD will have created a folder in the documents folder, and will have copied the file to your app.

So yes, this means that you now have the file in three places (see the stars***)

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Long way around it? Yes. Would it be quicker if your phone was Jailbroken? Yes. But this is for someone who doesn't want their device jailbroken, and would be handy for anyone who doesn't want to (or can't as they have IOS6) Jailbreak their iPad.

One major con (doing it this way) is the naming strucutre. When you import the file to the iPad, you can't see the filename. When you import it to i-FlashDrive HD, it's given a name based on when you imported it.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5f1VmjjczQ

Seems some of the info in the above video is out of date, so see below;

Install i-FlashDrive HD and also Stuffit Expander (both are free apps).

Another way is to zip the file, and rename the zip to an NEF filename
Example; DSC_1234.nef
and put it into the same folder as above.
import the NEF file by connecting the SD Card reader to the iPad
Select the files you wish to import, and import them. This will import them into the library

open i-FlashDrive
Click settings (bottom left) and turn Rename File Extension to on, and click Done
Select Local Storage
Click the +
Click From Library
Click the Last Import folder
Select the NEF file and click Done
Click Copy and don't change any of the options, or it'll do damage to the zip file
Click Edit
Select file, click the blue arrow to the right of it, and select Rename .nef files to .zip
Click Edit
Select file, click the blue arrow to the right of it, and select Open In and select Open In Expander
Select the .zip file.
Select the archive. Select Extract Item.
Select the file again. This time it has a different extension, eg; *.avi
Select Open In and select your player.

The file will now be saved into the folder as that original file name, as it was before you ziped it.

the_syco

To create multiple zip files of files, install 7zip from http://www.7-zip.org/
open up notepad, and put in;
FOR %%i IN (*.avi) DO "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -tzip "%%i.zip" "%%i"
when all your files are avi files
and save it as a convert.bat file in the same folder as your movie files.

Will look into a more complex batch file that will do the above, and then rename it to a sequential DCF_????.nef file setup, so one simple click will turn the files into files ready to be copied to your SD card.

until then running
ren *.zip *.nef
in the command prompt will rename all the zip to nef
and then just click the F2 button on the keyboard to rename the file, paste
DSC_12
followed by two digits such as 11
will rename it to DSC_1211.nef

Or something. It's 3am so it works in my mind, and on Windows 7 :P

Thanks to the folks at sourceforge.net for the syntax of the zipping batch file. Looking at this to figure out the batch rename of the files.