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help with airdropping audiofiles from Mac to iPad
Hello... I am having troubles airdropping files to my iPad from my mac. On my mac I select the audio file, choose share, select my iPad as target, and then I am prompted on the iPad with where I want to receive the airdrop..... I select "files" and then it tells me the transfer is done but I can't find the file after that. In Files I have tried searching for the file name in "Recents", "iCloudShare", and "on my iPad" but tcan't seem to locate them. What am I doing wrong? I'm pretty sure this should be trivial but I am clueless I guess. 
Any help appreciated as the desire to easily transfer files to my iPad and mess with them there is so great. Thanks in advance and sorry this is such a stupid question
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I don't get prompted for a location when I send to the iPad. The file opens in preview, then I have to select the share icon, then finally save to files. When I do that the file shows where I want it to.
What is the file name extension for the file?
The file in question was ".m4a"... although I just tried a .wav file and had the same result. When I airdrop to the iPad I just get a an "Airdrop open with" and then a list of apps and Files is right at the end.
Saving any files airdropped from MacOS to the iPadOS files app often seems to result in a mysteriously missing file on my iPad. But if I open a file airdropped from MacOS in AudioShare, including zip files and pdfs, I can find them there, and can move them to any destination with zero problems.
What version of iPadOS is that?
When you choose files, does it open in preview, where you can listen to the file?
@wim 16.5.1
@GUB yeah.... I think that's the way I have managed in the past... just wish it dropped the file in Files....
Thank you both a ton for extending help with this
I totally don't get why this works so differently for me than for you. When I share an m4a file from the Mac finder, it opens to the audio preview on the iPad. From there I can tap the share icon and save it where I like on the iPad. I don't get anything remotely like the menu you show in the screenshot.
Ahh. I was trying on a new device with iOS 17. I see what you mean now that I tried on iOS 16.
Apple. 🙄
Well ... it does work better on iOS 17 if you have a device that can upgrade to it.
OS version difference?
yep.
I tried opening in Sample Crate rather than Files. From there I was able to long-press and move or copy (depending on destination) the file to other places in the file system.
Just saying, Files is not really a place, it's a collection of places provided by other apps. These are the "Documents" folders provided by various apps, appearing On My iPad, and the various "File Providers" listed in the sidebar. In principle, saving to "Files" should invoke a file picker (looks like Files app, but in a window) for you to select a location. If that does not happen on the iPad, then it looks like it's dropped the ball, and the file is stored nowhere. Better to send it to an app which can then manage it locally, as already described.
@uncledave yes... I understood that about "Files" although in a much shallower form, thank you for the extra illumination. Maybe I'll upgrade the OS... my iPad (11" Pro 1st gen) is compatible. Will also try the sample crate long-press or audioshare route if that fails. My apprehension (perhaps totally unfounded as I am pretty clueless) with opening in those audio apps is that I worry the imported audio will get saved in duplicate (I have vague memories of sandboxing).
Alright. Thank you all so much! I will keep you posted!
A couple of things:
@wim thank you for that info. Looks like iCloud shared drive is going to be my way to transfer samples "on a whim" now. Encountered a bit of a bummer here... I updated ios on iPad and now airdrop doesn't work at all from my iMac. Guessing it's because my iMac has an older OS which I can't update since iZotope stopped supporting Trash2 and Iris2 in later os's. I have Trash2 in almost every Logic project and I am in a multi-year collaboration with a friend. Fuuuuuuudge. Ironically airdrop from iMac to files on my phone works, but sadly it cant airdrop to my iPad anymore either. So iCloud or dropbox maybe is my solution now
Thank you again!
iCloud is OK, but has the huge caveat that you have no control over what stays stored locally and what gets offloaded to the cloud and has to be re-downloaded. Not too often a problem, but is if you don't have internet.
AirDrop can be flakey between iPad and Mac. It may not be due to your OS version. Sometimes, for reasons I can't pin down, files just won't upload to the Mac (which is stuck at Monterey due to its age). Some unfathomable combination of disabling then enabling wifi, bluetooth, and AirDrop on the iPad and/or Mac eventually gets it going again. Rebooting the Mac seems to work too, but I hate going that route as when I AirDrop something it means I'm in the middle of doing something I don't want to restart. I keep hoping I'll discover the magic combination that gets it going again.
But when it works, AirDrop rules!
Fwiw, I can airdrop from a 2016 MacBook Air running high sierra
@wim and @espiegel123 interesting.... And yeah when it works Airdrop does rule! I won't abandon hope! I mean it was really fun to record all channels in an AUM jam and then airdrop those to my mac for use in logic... sweet!
Re:iCloud I think I would move it to iCloud, then copy to local iPad storage, and then delete iCloud version. My test of that earlier seemed good.... A little less immediate than I prefer but it's an option