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   Alan to badgolferman   
   Re: Just use iOS files and SMB (was Re:    
   10 Apr 25 17:41:17   
   
   XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-04-10 17:40, badgolferman wrote:   
   > Marion  wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:57:54 -0000 (UTC), badgolferman wrote :   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>> One question I'd like you to clarify is whether you can do what people   
   want   
   >>>> to do, which Frank Slootweg also asked - and I concur it's very important.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> 1. From the PC... (Windows or Linux but I think you're on Windows)   
   >>>> 2. Can you *initiate* that file/folder transfer from the PC over to iOS?   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> No, I cannot. Only from the iPhone to the PC.   
   >>   
   >> Hmm... thanks for the reply but that's not what I asked but I do appreciate   
   >> your response. May I clarify the question, since you tried it & I can't?   
   >>   
   >> The first question is whether you can sit at the PC (with the iOS device   
   >> nowhere near you) and transfer the files while sitting at that PC.   
   >>   
   >> The reason I ask is that's what everyone wants to do and that's what works   
   >> just fine for all the normal people (who are not Apple trolls, of course).   
   >>   
   >> The second question, no matter where you sit (so for this second question,   
   >> it's OK to have the iOS device near you) is which direction did not work?   
   >>   
   >> Can a file from the PC be copied to the iOS device in your tests?   
   >>   
   >   
   > No, I cannot push or pull files from the PC to phone. I can only push or   
   > pull files from the phone to the PC.   
   >   
      
   Or in other words, you can both move files to the PC and get files from   
   the PC...   
      
   ...in the exact manner the server/client connections have always worked.   
      
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