just to be clear: I was referring to reset all settings only. not resetting the iPad as in “factory reset”.Here’s the error messages. Deleting and reinstalling the files app has made no difference. Resetting my ipad is the last resort, as I simply haven’t had the time to get round to it, but now that it’s the weekend (again), I think I will just bite the bullet.
Wish me luck.
Oh, you try to open PDFs on OneDrive through Apple’s Files without transferring them to the iPad beforehand?Update - resetting my iPad didn’t solve the pdf issue, but it did solve the problem of the files app not opening a document in the respective office app (eg: open saved word documents in the word app).
It also had the side effect of making me have to redo all my settings (especially since I turned off “show content in search” for all my apps).
What does seem to fix the issue was to log out of the OneDrive app, and then log in again. Right now, pdf documents are opening fine in the files app again. I will continue to observe while keeping my fingers crossed.
Again, thank you to everyone who responded.
I didn’t even think about that, but OneDrive causing issues actually makes a lot of sense to me. I’ve had similar issues with OneDrive where I had to uninstall and reinstall it. It got to where OneDrive was using more local storage then I even had files in it. In other words, the local storage listed for OneDrive exceeded the storage I had used in OneDrive. I uninstalled and reinstalled the OneDrive app, and that fixed it, but I suspect I’ll likely have to do something similar again sometime down the road. It seems like OneDrive has far more bugs like this than any other cloud storage system I use. Glad to hear you found a solution for the problems you were experiencing! 👍🏻
I posted the above more than six years ago, and still do not own a laptop. I wound up purchasing a 2018 12.9” iPad Pro, 256 GB. It was great, until a couple of months ago when it developed a hardware glitch and a cracked screen as a result of dropping it on a hardwood floor.
Exactly! Many of us here have happily replaced our laptops with iPads, and find the iPad to be a better option. This is just a matter of preferences and use-case.
You really need to give some attention to your stand up routine. This one is so old, it's starting to look like stale, moldy bread.
To be fair, I don’t think this is the case… it’s a manner of preferences. I don’t look at an iPhone and claim it fails to be a smartphone because I decided to go with a different one.
It's not just familiarity, it's battling some of the limitations of iPadOS that get in the way and slow people down for certain tasks. I can do basic tasks easily on my iPad, but anything complicated soon becomes a frustrating exercise that has me going back to my Mac.
No denying there are limitations within iPadOS… that users have to find workaround, but is that considered a failure?
By lexical definition it is not - but there are waste areas of application where there is no workaround. So iPadOS does not fail, it simply cannot or does not allow to - for whatever reasons - do it.
While this is true, again, there are enough examples where it is not a matter of “experience”.
Very happy for you, but that's not what I'm referring to. No one wants to fault you or begrudge you your happiness with your new tech. What is not cool or acceptable is your first statement. It does not fail to do the job for everybody. It is a laptop replacement for many of us...including myself....and imo, it does the job very well. The difference is, I and others here relate our experience and opinions in a way that is open and considerate to the experiences of others that can't, don't want to, or are somewhere in the middle.
