>>Have you seen this article:
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/ipad/ipad32dd03cd/ipados ?
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>Yes, I saw this article. It requires iTunes to be installed on the PC. Which I will do.
As I understand it iOS devices are nominally secure. If so you can't expect to connect one to a PC and have the PC be able to read its contents without some sort of authentication.
Even if you're somehow able to authenticate, I suspect the iPad uses a file system which a PC doesn't natively understand so it wouldn't be able to mount the iPad storage so you could work with its files.
It sounds like iTunes on a PC gets you past those hurdles. It's probably quicker to install iTunes on the PC, transfer the files, then uninstall it afterwards than researching other methods.
Regards. Al
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