Re: How to copy a photo from Windows to iOS without needing Internet servers

Alan wrote:

On 2025-04-13 05:46, badgolferman wrote:

Chris wrote:
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badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:

Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:

badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:

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Yes, we use Microsoft Intune. They switched over from
MaaS360 which was a  royal pain in the ass. They are also
heavily encouraging us to store ALL  our documents on
OneDrive and Sharepoint rather than locally on the PC. So
far I’ve resisted doing that, but I do keep critical copies
on Sharepoint  for my colleagues to use in case I get hit
by a bus.

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Why not just use sharepoint? It's so much easier for everyone.
The bus  factor is an important consideration for an
organisation.
I have ALL my work files on Sharepoint which makes life easier
for me and  my colleagues. I encourage my team to do the same.
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I often work offline from home or the road and am not always on
the company  LAN. I also don’t want my files to get lost or
locked up by some technical  glitch or hack job. Does that make
sense?

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Not really.
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I too am often away from the office. SharePoint/OneDrive works
fine.  You're more likely to irrecoverably lose local files - to
hardware loss or failure - than using cloud resources.
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Very occasionally there is a sync issue with oneDrive but you can
always go back to a working version due to the in-built history.

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Well, I disagree with you.  Most of my work documents are Excel
files and they just don't translate well to Sharepoint when you
want to work on them.  Keeping backup copies on Sharepoint is one
thing, but leaving my working versions there is something I'm
unwilling to do.

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I'm using Excel with online files all the time and never have a
problem.

Using a PC bring up an Excel file in Sharepoint.  Select a cell with
text in it.  Press F2 on your keyboard to enable editing within the
cell.  Press Insert on your keyboard to enable typeover of the
characters.  That won't work on Sharepoint, but it works on the PC
application.  I typeover individual characters in cells all the time
and want the original number visible while I'm editing that cell.  It's
cumbersome to use Delete and Backspace keys when the Insert key does
exactly what I want.

Another annoying thing is text size of the whole file.  It defaults to
100% when I want it at 80%.

I also have 3-4 spreadsheets open while copying and pasting data back
and forth between them.  I can arrange these windows on my PC where
they are all visible at once and easily Tab from one to another.
Keyboard shortcuts don't work elegantly through a web browser.

These are just some of the issues with working on Excel files on
Sharepoint.  There are several more and that's why I prefer using the
local version of Microsoft apps rather than the web version.

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This issue is much like the one being argued to death right now.
You prefer the cloud method of working documents and I prefer the
local method of working copies.  Both have their pros and cons, but
at least we have a choice on how we want to implement it.  The same
goes for transferring files between iOS devices and PCs.  Some
people prefer initiating the transfer from the iPhone side and some
people prefer initiating the transfer from the PC side.  Both
methods work but the pros of one method outweigh the pros of the
other method for each person.

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“The more things change, the more they remain the same.” ~ Alphonse Karr