iPad All-in-One For Dummies, 7th Edition

Chapter 1

Managing Files and Printing

In This Chapter

Understanding how iPad stores files

Sharing files by emailing, AirDrop, or through the cloud

Setting up Home Sharing

Printing wirelessly from iPad

Okay, I’m going to be very upfront about this: Apple has not used a traditional paradigm for moving files to and from your iPad or managing files on the device. In essence, this is partially a chapter about the following:

• What iPad does differently from how traditional file management is handled by OS interfaces such as OS X’s Finder or Windows Explorer (Windows 7 and earlier) or File Explorer (Windows 8 and later). (For brevity, I just refer to this feature using the Windows 8 nomenclature, File Explorer, in the rest of this chapter.)
• How you can get things in and out of the device without a USB port or DVD drive.

One exciting way to back up content is iCloud, which allows you to store content online, and I discuss that in this chapter as well as in Book I, Chapter 5. In addition, you can share content with somebody in close proximity by using the AirDrop technology.

The other topic ...