Manually importing / syncing on Studies iOS ?

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Peter Narkis

26 Feb, 2016 03:22 PM

Hi again,

I'd like to know whether the ability to import stacks from Studies on Mac to iOS through usb will be implemented again.
The issue is that I have a HUGE library (over 6 gigabytes), which I impossibly can update and sync over the cloud, having a bad internet connection.
Thus, wired syncing is the only viable option for me.

I can't import MC2 archives anymore (as I could with the old version) through MC iOS in iTunes, so each time I have to export the stack I wanna learn, import them in a dedicated program for file transferring (Fileapp in my case) and then use the option "open in another application").

Now this works when the archive is no bigger than 400 megabytes.
A bigger size makes the MC iOS app crash.

So, will there be any improvement in the iOS Studies version ?

  1. Support Staff 1 Posted by drewmccormack on 27 Feb, 2016 09:57 AM

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    Unlikely. There is just not enough people who want to do this to warrant what is quite a big feature. I think you are the first to ask for USB sync back.

    Sync of 6GB is not really viable anyway, whichever system you use. Just too much data. That is why we added 'selective sync' in studies. You can have your 6GB on the Mac, and just sync what you are currently working on to iOS.

    If you do want to use importing, you could export your data in chunks of stacks that aren't too big (use Mental Case 2 Archive format). You could transfer those to the iPhone using USB with a file handling app that supports USB, and then use Open In... to import. So you don't actually need MC or Studies to support USB itself.

    Kind regards,
    Drew

  2. drewmccormack closed this discussion on 27 Feb, 2016 09:57 AM.

  3. Peter Narkis re-opened this discussion on 27 Feb, 2016 10:30 AM

  4. 2 Posted by Peter Narkis on 27 Feb, 2016 10:30 AM

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    Hi Drew,

    the solution you're talking about is actually what I'm doing.
    So I can live with that.

    Thing is, my stacks are about 90 Megs big and MC's having trouble with imported data that's too voluminous. Experience taught me that 200 megs is about the limit. 400 megs worked once or twice for me, but is mostly crashing.

    As Studies is supposed to handle large libraries well, can I expect an improvement in the iOS version for that matter.

  5. Support Staff 3 Posted by drewmccormack on 27 Feb, 2016 10:33 AM

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    I think Studies should be somewhat better. It has a simpler smaller internal data model.
    But iOS devices are limited in RAM. If you have a problem in the beta starting next week, might be worth sending us the archive, and we can test and see if anything can be improved.

    Drew

  6. 4 Posted by Peter Narkis on 27 Feb, 2016 12:15 PM

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    How can one apply to the beta?

  7. Support Staff 5 Posted by drewmccormack on 27 Feb, 2016 12:37 PM

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    I just need your iTunes account email.

    Drew

  8. 6 Posted by Peter Narkis on 27 Feb, 2016 02:53 PM

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    where do I send it to?

  9. Support Staff 7 Posted by drewmccormack on 27 Feb, 2016 03:03 PM

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    Just to me here.

    Drew

  10. Support Staff 8 Posted by drewmccormack on 27 Feb, 2016 03:03 PM

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  11. 9 Posted by Peter Narkis on 29 Feb, 2016 02:09 PM

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    herayo

    [email blocked] <[email blocked]>

  12. drewmccormack closed this discussion on 29 Feb, 2016 07:11 PM.

  13. Peter Narkis re-opened this discussion on 02 Mar, 2016 08:55 AM

  14. 10 Posted by Peter Narkis on 02 Mar, 2016 08:55 AM

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    hi Drew,

    I said as you did for the email, but didn't receive any follow-up in my inbox...

  15. Support Staff 11 Posted by drewmccormack on 02 Mar, 2016 09:02 AM

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    It seems to block the email.
    Can you send the address to drewmccormack at mac dot com.
    Drew

  16. 12 Posted by Peter Narkis on 02 Mar, 2016 12:07 PM

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    Hi Drew,

    I'll give you an alternative address :

    [email blocked] <[[email blocked]]>

  17. Support Staff 13 Posted by drewmccormack on 02 Mar, 2016 12:34 PM

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    OK, I put it on the list.

    Drew

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