I got myself a new iPad10 and bought Blocs for iPad.
My projects are all on a Mac Mini with linked assets.
When I copy my projects to the iPad and open it, Blocs asked for misiing assets (in this case 250).
I’m able to reconnect a single asset by navigate to the folder it stays in and it works.
Is there a way to reconnect all assets at one time?
The project is stored on the iPad and not in icloud.
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This might help (it’s not a long thread):
Can I check are all assets stored on iPad too? Or are the on iCloud?
Hi Norm,
all assets are stored on the iPad in the same folder as on the Mac.
The whole folder structure is exactly the same as on the Mac.
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Thanks for trying to help, but this doesn’t help in my case.
My assets are not embedded. All assets are linked to a certain folder.
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This is because of iOS sandbox limitations I think.
If you reconnect one asset, does it automatically do the rest?
No.
That’s what I‘m asking for. Is This possible?
It certainly shoud, like in Blocs for Mac.
I’m pretty sure it should work that way. I’ll check, I think the last time I tested it it was on iCloud storage.
I wonder why Blocs is asking for the assets at all.
The whole folder structure is exactly the same on Mac and iPad.
All assets are in the same place on both devices.
I also tried that with iCloud and the issue is the same.
This is a restriction on iOS | iPadOS, you are not allowed to access other locations on the device without the users permission.
Sorry Norm,
I don‘t understand.
Does that mean, I can‘t use my old projects with Blocs for iPad?
What do other users do? Any suggestions?
There must be a way to get my stuff to the iPad.
This is how I do it.
Go to the project settings of the site on the OS version and tick Embed all assets in project file. Then go to asset manager and you will see that there is a link icon on each image. Somewhere at the top of the asset manager (I’ve this for all my sites, but don’t remember exactly what it says, where because I can’t see it now) and you have an option to embed all linked images. Now when you save the file, all the assets will be embedded in the file, not in a separate ‘linked’ folder. I still always keep the original images in a folder, along with the site, so I know where to find them. If you add the saved blocs file to iCloud then open from it to the iPad, all the images will appear. This also works from iPad to Mac. Once you enabled the embed facility, any assets added afterwards will automatically be embedded, with no need to do the ‘linking’ part.
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I think it’s because, even though they are in the same file hierarchy, the path isn’t actually the same. On you Mac, it will be disk/user/location/documents/etc, that sort of thing…… The path will be different on the iPad. That’s why they’re not being found. At least, that’s how I understand it. Also, see my post further down the thread.
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Ill give it a try.
Thanx anyway for your help.
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Embedded assets is the best workflow for cross platform working.
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Or, hosted.
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This seems to be the only way.
The way I tried does not work at all.
I did what @Reg recommended and it works.
My project file is now 30 MB instead of 1.2 MB.
@Jannis
What are hosted assets?
Thanx Jannis for the reply.
I know this function but where are the assets come from? Where are they stored?
I never used this function because I’ve never understood how it works.