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Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files

From Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android, alt.os.linux, alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files
Date 2026-07-08 11:14 -0400
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Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> I agree that PDF isn't all that great for books in that, for me, my eyes
>> aren't so great and a PDF makes you sit and stare at it to read it.
> 
> Maybe it would be easier to read in an ebook device, using epaper which 
> doesn't shine.

What I found unintuitive was that it likely would have never had this
relative path problem had I used my iPads to put the shop manual on.

I didn't pick the iPads because I am aware that copying files from anything
NOT Apple to the iPad is miserable, but once copied over, relative paths
would have worked.

The way I would have copied it, had I not already invested in the Android
solution, would be to use LocalSend on the desktop and on the iOS device.
  Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.os.linux,comp.sys.mac.system
  Subject: How to transfer & play videos from a PC to an iPad using LocalSend and VLC
  Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:51:33 -0600
  Message-ID: <111pr6k$37o9q$1@news.tcpreset.net>

Since Apple products are designed to NOT work in the real world (i.e.,
interoperability between platforms does not exist), I had to jump through
hoops to get movies from a desktop to a spot on iOS that VLC could get to.

In that case, I used LocalSend on the desktop and on the iOS device.
But interestingly, to get the movies from one iPad to another was a beast.

It turns out that apparently Apple breaks the LocalSend mDNS discovery
mechanism, such that it turned out that AirDrop was what finally worked.

But even AirDrop has its issues because you have to realize Apple forces
idiotic constraints between devices in that AirDrop apparently doesn't see
the files in VLC. So we moved them to Photos.

It gets even more arbitrarily stupid where, apparently, you get 10 minutes
on AirDrop. That's it. 10 minutes. Then it drops. 

So you turn that 10-minute switch on over and over again.

Thirdly, for whatever strange reason, the owner of the second iPad has to
be in the first iPad's contacts. 

WTF?
What are contacts even doing on an iPad?

Anyway, once we moved the movies into Photos and then after we added the
second owner's contact to the first iPad, then (and only then) AirDrop
worked. But not for long. It kept failing. And there's that 10 minutes.

While AirDrop eventually worked in the end, before trying AirDrop, we first 
tried iOS Wi-Fi file sharing using the iOS VLC Wi-Fi and we then tried the
iOS LocalSend on both iPads, but the two iPads would not discover each
other even though they both were on the same LAN.

It's not surprising that iOS VLC didn't work reliably on large files
because iOS throttles background network activity for sandboxed apps.

But having the iOS LocalSend not worksing was surprising since the original
LocalSend copy worked perfectly between Windows and the iPad, but
apparently iOS blocks the discovery mechanism the iOS LocalSend uses.	 

LocalSend uses multicast DNS (mDNS), which, on the surface, is the same 
discovery protocol AirDrop uses, but without Apple's special privileges.

We got it done, as we always get what we need done, but just knowing that
nothing Apple makes is designed to work in the real world is why we tried
Android first when it came to viewing huge shop manuals on the tablet.

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How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-04 18:40 -0400
  Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-07-04 21:17 -0400
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