On 12/30/2011 2:07 AM, melissa tucker wrote:
> there are some apps in the apple store that is supposed to unpack
> files such as unarchiver, unzip, and a few others, but unable to get
> them to work in conjunction with safari.
>
I'm confused -- in an earlier message you said that Safari asked if you
wanted to open the file in unarchiver. Now you're saying that you're
unable to get them to work in conjunction with Safari. Which is it?
I think that you may be confused about how the iPad works, especially
since in your previous message you said that you want to be able to
unzip the files and store them in a folder. The iPad doesn't have the
same sort of folder structure that either the Mac or PC have. The iPad
has files stored as internal data by an individual app, not in a folder
structure which makes the files visible to all apps. So if you are
working on a file in one app and want to send it to another file to be
worked on, you will end up with 2 (or more!) copies of that same file,
unlike what happens when you want to work on a single file in several
programs on your Mac or PC.
You can send a file from one iPad app to another if both the apps are
built for that sort of file exchange, and that's what Safari was asking
you, at least as far as your previous message suggested.
You would download the file in Safari, then when it asked you if you
wanted to send the file to UnArchiver you would say yes, and UnArchiver
would open up and unzip the file and then in turn would ask you which
app you wanted the file sent to.
Any other browser would work basically the same way, since that's how
apps work with files on the iPad.
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David H. Bailey
dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
