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Paz Warsager
Since updating to iOS 17 there doesn't seem to be a way to automatically open files AirDropped into any applications. The files get downloaded to the Files application and you can open them from there, but previously you could open them straight in another application. There doesn't seem to be any documentation to this change.
Same issue. Experimented with CFBundleDocumentTypes, UTExportedTypeDeclarations, UTImportedTypeDeclarations, UIFileSharingEnabled, LSSupportsOpeningDocumentsInPlace with no success. Seems to be a bug in iOS 17, and it still persists in Beta 17.1 (21B5045h).
Poor choice in the intentional change. It made AirDrop far less user friendly. I would air drop a .pdf and it would at least prompt me to select an App like iAnnotate. This only added extra steps to my workflow. I get not allowing direct app selection without a prompt to select a specific app but forcing it to files only was a poor change.
I wonder if this restriction applied only to Airdropped files, or to any custom file types? I noticed that my app's custom file type wouldn't open in the app automatically by the click on it in Files app even if I moved that file to the Files app manually, not via Airdrop. Though other file types (eq. .epub, .fb2) continue to open in their corresponding apps. Do I need to provide some additional setup to custom file type? Now I have the same custom type registered in both DocumentTypes and Exported Type Identifiers on my target's Info tab, and it opened in the app before iOS 17.
we are experiencing the same problem. iOS 17 / 17.1.x. We set both the UIFileSharingEnabled and LSSupportsOpeningDocumentsInPlace toggles in Info.plist, as well as the UISupportsDocumentBrowser toggle. Before iOS 17 we were able to edit files in an external app without problem (e.g. Excel files in the MS Excel App), since iOS 17 we are not.
Why try to fix something thats not broken ? This adds so many extra steps and adds files to the Files app that i dont want, so i have to go back and delete them. Why not give an option to chose where I want to open the file? That was really the best way to go about this
I would like to change this to another app but don't know how. Reading here, others may be interested that this version, in one instance, performs like the old version. Albeit unable to alter the behavior. Not recognizing the supposed "design intent".
My Kobo Aura HD H2O is "in the mail" so I'm trying to prepare for it by adding existing non-DRM ePub books that I already own. Ideally I'd like to be able to add books to the Kobo Desktop App and have the device sync via WiFi when it arrives.
(And please please don't say that only books purchased via the Kobo store can be added and that I have to copy them onto the device directly and not have any sync capability... The reason I'm switching to Kobo from Kindle is to rid myself of the hassle of having islands of content!)
Please note that if you simply need to transfer .epub files to the reader, you can simply connect it to your computer with an USB cable, it will be treated like an external USB storage drive; you can simply copy your books on the reader (maybe on a new sub-directory to keep things clean and neat) and when you disconnect it, it will update the database and recognize your new books. There isn't anything easier than this ;-)
Anyway for a more complete management, I suggest you to try Calibre, it is a superb ebook manager itself with a ton of features; also, it is free and opensource and it is available for Linux systems too, if these are things that are relevant for you.
One of its strengths is the opportunity to add plugins to extend its functionalities. It works perfectly with any ereader device, without the need to add anything, but I suggest to you a couple of plugins that are specifically aimed at Kobo users, that can be useful to have:
Please note that you don't have to download these plugins from the MobileRead forum, the easiest way is to install them directly from inside Calibre, where this task can be performed from a nice and handy graphical interface.
You can't expect answers if you refuse to accept answers that state the truth. afaik, you can't make a Kobo sync state with sideloaded books (and I've delved a long way into the software and database structure). Kobo is only slightly better than Amazon about "islands of content".
Folks who step outside the box of known things have always been considered a bit odd if not crazy. The early shamans who would go off by themselves and invite visions and experiences beyond the ordinary were often felt to be a little scary and dangerous even. What they brought back to the tribe was puzzling and often threatening to established understandings.
Thanks for the note. I too believe that the societies we inhabit will have to massively transform (read implode) before really change will happen. I have not read that Nader book, but will definitely check it out.
I get a little uneasy when overpopulation is not headlined in any general solution to our problems. When you are in survival mode 350 ppm CO2 goals seem peripheral to your moment to moment drive to survive. So I like simple solutions that you can stick on a bumper sticker, like:
As long as the government does nothing to reign in its use of fuels and all the rest, how can we as individuals ever hope to compete with that level of exhausting pollution. Ever hear of the military trying to become carbon conscious? Not likely.
The US government represents corporate interests without a shred of conscience. The individuals who own and profit from all this are sociopaths who are not concerned at all with the suffering they create.
The same defensiveness crops up on the pro-McKibben comments here, but there is a need to point out that there are folks who tired of the same old hope-and-smoke routines from the establishment greens.
This is not a problem of not thinking hard enough or not listening at the feet of would-be analysis gurus. Whatever was said by the establishment greens here was said back in the 70s, and yet there were a few critics, like Langdon Winner, who warned, within the movement, against delivering the Pie-in-the-sky rhetoric that gets trampled under by social reality, of corporations, business, mining, drilling, money.
Even in the open seas which I have some experience with you defer to the big boats and massive tuna fishing interests and even those outlaw entrepreneurs, better known as pirates. There is also the experience of being surrounded by industrial pollution.
So I have no choice but to treat any collection of people under any label, whether it be corporate or otherwise, as finally simply people who presumably want a future for their children. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
You know, I was real dark having on folk like Tim Flannery, David Suzuki, Jeremy Scahill, Richard Heinberg, others from Post-Carbon Institute. Dark because I was looking at the green washing and eco-pornography with a clear eye.
I am not trying to attack Bill as a human, but he is not my spokesperson, and he is not much in terms of the narrative. There are rights of nature, basic rights of the world outside the man-centric Consumopithecus.
Karyn Strickler is a political scientist, grassroots organizer and writer. Karyn hosts and produces, Climate Challenge, the first and only TV show in the nation to focus exclusively on the issue of climate change.
Our celebrity emperors attract a great deal of personal affection or hatred, so when I suggest an alternative to packaging a rally for the climate as a belated campaign event, it may be heard as a suggestion to burn Obama in effigy. What if there were a third option, namely that of simply demanding the protection of our climate
Some take a more-or-less anarchistic, direct action approach, wherein the main effort is not to change government policy but immediate, local conditions. These might create ecovillages or other types of low-carbon economic / social relations independent of government policy considerations.
The state of education in the USA is in deep trouble, and, alas, that would be the last great safety net for humankind to be shredded. We saw the judicial branch get bought and sold. The legislative branch are prostitutes. The executive branch? Come on, shysters and criminals. The Fourth Estate? Missing in action but actually the mistruth factory for the One Percent and Project of Empire. So, education is the last to be ripped up and crushed by the wrecking crew.
So, the alternative is fight. Make sure that every waking hour is not on the ledger book. Make sure that every nanosecond of our lives is not in Google, tracked by Bezos and plotted by Microsoft. Make sure to not pay thoxe taxes, uh?
I found myself immobilized by the scale of the problem and decided that I could move myself, and perhaps others by example, through the self-education of figuring out a plan to reduce my carbon emissions. The first piece of that plan is my direct carbon uses. Its not all that I need to change, but I can see its feasible and not intimidating. My thoughts are posted here -f1M352h2CcZR1QghimKHdPb5Gj-BRA_-BvH07GE/edit
We have no health care for all; we have demos and repubes talking about extending work until 80 or 85. We have magical thinkers looking toward nanoparticles as the next big thing. We have all these great thinkers forgetting to work on public transportation BIG TIME, and overturning that personhood status for corporations.
Until we take back and move toward enlightenment, no amount of climate change mitigation or rallies will help the 70 percent of us in already precarious work conditions and with little life lines from the elite and the ameliorating few who believe their rhetoric.
Believe you, I have been arrested for protesting Bank of America, for Amazon, for all sorts of wars in Central America, and other fine political action. Where does that get us? Fingerprinted and pushed even further to the edge of the world of work, some anchor in community.
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