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Hey guys, it's Lance of Macs sound solutions. And today I'm going to be talking about
IPad OS 14 beta number one. I've got it installed here on my iPad
iPad pro
the only reason I did this was to check out the files app to see if Apple has fixed the
issues that have plagued the files app if you've seen some my other videos on this I found that if you have a SSD
Formatted and a PFS and you connect it directly to the iPad
That's the way you're going to get the fastest speeds. Basically a one gig file took three seconds to put on the iPad and
ten seconds to get off the iPad which isn't terrible, but if you have like a
ExFAT SD card and you transfer that one gig off the iPad it will take forever and it might get corrupted
So Apple may or may have not addressed this so during Apple's recent WWDC
Which was virtual the files. I've got no love they didn't really even talk about it
the only thing they show on the website when you scroll way down to see what the changes are with iPad OS 14 is
This little snippet on files redesigned sidebar and ap FS encrypted drive support
Let's just get it right over to the iPad. I'm going to run tests with different scenarios
put up the times and you'll see how it performs an iPad OS 14 beta 1
So in our first test we're gonna do the old one gig from the SanDisk Extreme Pro to the iPad see how long that takes
One thing I noticed right away is drives and mount much quicker than they used to
So here I'm transferring the one gig file onto the iPad and it took about three to four seconds
Okay
so in Reverse
We're gonna copy the one gig file back to the SanDisk and an iPad OS 13
It took 10 seconds to copy the one big file. So here we go, and it comes in at
4.5 seconds, so that is half the speed that it used to take. It used to always take ten seconds
So that's a huge improvement
So now I'm gonna throw my initech hub into the mix and we'll see how it performs
Without any external power just running off the iPad pros power. So we're copying it over
USB hub in the mix
And it looks like it's just as fast as connecting the drive directly to the iPad pro, which is great
okay, we're gonna run the test in the opposite one gig file from the iPad pro to the sandesh Extreme Pro via the
initech USB C hub and
Here we go. We're copying it over and
Is it the same speed
Okay, so that was a hair slower but it's still better than ten seconds it came in at 6.5 seconds
Every hub is gonna perform differently and you always have to make sure you're using a high bandwidth data cable
So so far iPad OS 14 beta is doing pretty well
There's an improvement on the transfer speeds from the iPad pro to the SanDisk SSD
I also ran the same exact tests with external power to the initech hub and it didn't make a difference speeds were the same
so next up we're gonna use the initech hub to
Transfer a one gig file off an SDXC card formatted and exFAT to the iPad pro and then we're going to do it
And transfer a one gig file from the iPad pro
To the SDXC card and this card is rated at a hundred and fifty megabytes per second here
We are transferring it and obviously it's not going to be as fast as the extreme pro SSD
It's got a much lower read speed
But it's still moving along here. There we go. 13 seconds
Okay, now we're going to transfer the one gig file back to the SDXC card and this is where things start to get
a little funky you can see first off that there's no progress circle and
Speaking of the progress circle. It seems like Apple has not improved that it's very wonky
You don't know if your file is halfway done copying a quarter of the way copying
It's just kind of random. It usually gets to the halfway point and then the file is done copying
Instead of completing this circle so they definitely need to work on that
And for some reason here, you don't even see the circle, so I wasn't even sure what was going on
But it took a really long time for this file to copy. So I'm gonna speed this up
So we're still waiting a minute two minutes three
Minutes and 32 seconds, ouch
So for comparison's I connected the SDXC card and the initech hub to my Mac Pro
And it transferred the file in either direction in 11 seconds
But the iPad pro took over three minutes to transfer a 1 gig file to the SDXC card
Okay, so this is the final test I took a hundred RAW images I'm not going to do the whole video part of this
I'm just gonna tell you I took a hundred RAW images
2.5 gigs
From the SDXC card to the iPad Pro took a minute and 23 seconds
Which is pretty good and I did the same test with the SDXC card through my Mac Pro
Via the initech hub and that took a minute and four seconds. So it was faster, but it wasn't
Ridiculously faster then we did it in Reverse
I took the hundred images transferred them from the iPad to the
SDXC card and it took seven minutes and thirty seconds
And when I did the same thing with the Mac Pro back to the SDXC card, it only took a minute in 13 seconds
so very long story short
the iPad pro does not play nice when transferring files from the iPad to an
exFAT formatted SDXC card
And I'm sure that's also the case with an exFAT formatted harddrive one of my subscribers
said that he had the best luck with an
HFS+
formatted harddrive SSD
with the iPad pro and Windows
So if you're using an SSD with your iPad pro, I would try using
HFS+ and see how that does and stay away from exFAT format for
Anything but importing things to the iPad pro
Don't try copying things
to an exFAT formatted SD x card or hard drive because it
Will be super slow and you will probably have corruption
And this is really almost the worst of all of them
I want to delete those hundred images off my iPad now and I'm going to delete the zip
File that I created up 200 images now
I'm going to go to recently deleted where you have to go to actually delete it permanently from the iPad
So I go in here I hit delete this item will be deleted immediately. Yes. I want to delete it
I do it with a zip file. Yes. I want to delete it and then you know what?
I just want to get rid of all this stuff that's in the trash. So I'm gonna select all
hit delete
Recently deleted items maybe permanently deleted by your storage provider
Okay, so everything has been deleted now I go back to recently deleted and guess what? It's all still there
None of its been deleted and I can't seem to get it to be deleted. I've tried this several times
Okay. So now I have my iPad plugged into my Mac and what I was really hoping Apple would do is
Aside from having all your app file sharing folders that you can access once you click on files over here
I was hoping they would also have a folder now
Called on my iPad which is your root folder on your iPad where you copy files to?
But you can't access that you can only access it on the iPad
So you should move any of those loose files that are in the on my iPad folder to one of these
Internal folders app sharing folders that way you can access the file when you connect your iPad to your computer
So here we are. I copied the movie to my GoodReader folder and
There's the movie I can now drag that off onto my desktop
Which I'm not gonna do but or I can actually go in there and delete it
and
It's gone
There it goes
Did actually delete
It did but oddly it says updating files copying one of one
Matinee a which is the file. I just deleted but it is gone and I checked on the iPad. It has gone there as well
So Apple allows you to create your own folders on the iPad to organize your files. So here I am creating a new folder
I'm gonna give it a name
I'm gonna drag a file into this folder and then I'm gonna plug my
IPad into my computer, but where is lanced files? It doesn't exist
You can't access your own folders
When you connect your iPad to your computer
So you have to take that folder on the iPad and move it in to one of your app sharing folders
to be able to access it and not only that once you can
Access the folder you can open it when it's on your Mac
You have to drag it onto your desktop to even see what's inside the folder
There's no little arrow for you to click on to open the folder. You cannot open these folders
So the only way to know what's in there is to either go back to your iPad and see
You can't drag like one file out of that folder. You have to copy the whole folder
So you gotta be kind of organized in the way you manage your files with the files app
it certainly is not Mac like yet and
There's a lot of room for improvement and I certainly would not call it pro
it's not like using a Mac and
Apple trying to sell this thing as a
laptop replacement
Sorry folks. It ain't there yet. I haven't played around with Big Sur and I'm not going to be installing the beta of that
So maybe somebody else who has played around with the files app and Big Sur with the iPad could let us know
Okay, so quick rent, you know when iPad OS first came out
I was really hoping that it would be more Mac like but it's sort of this hybrid
between a Mac and an iPad
And I'm especially talking about the files app here
you know all the big youtubers they raved about the iPad pro and
They talk about the pencil and they talk about all the other stuff
But they seem to avoid talking about the files app as far as transfer speeds go
very few
if any did any sort of speed tests going
From a hard drive to the iPad and back like I have done I actually spent several days on this
Because I want to get the information
Correct before I spew it out onto the Internet and most people probably have not made it this far into the video
But I don't really care for those people who do care
I'm just trying to show you that to me. The iPad pro is not a pro device yet
It's somewhere in the middle, you know, you can't record to external storage yet
You can't like multitrack audio to external storage
You can't edit video off external storage and until you can do those things use external storage like you can with a laptop
It's not going to be a laptop replacer
And it's not going to be a pro which Apple likes to call it device
Okay. So there you have it seems that Apple still has work cut out for them. It's still far from perfect
So let's hope that before the final release of iPad OS 14
Apple addresses these issues and they improve the files app, which to me still needs a lot of work. Okay
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