SanDisk, Best Buy, Apple iPad Pro Compatibility Finally Solved

I got a SanDisk thumbdrive before we moved from Capitol Hill to northern Virginia to put as many photos and videos from a variety of sources in one place. It worked well on my old iPad using the lightning connection and the SanDisk app. When I got a new 12” ipadpro, the drive no longer worked because it’s not a lightning drive. I tried getting a connector for it at the Apple store a while back and they didn’t have such a thing. Because I wanted to access and use the photos on my iPad Pro, I figured there must finally be a solution. So I researched the topic and checked the Apple store again and found a USB-C to USB adapter. When it arrived I tried it and it didn’t connect to the SanDisk app. So I contacted Apple and they suggested I get a cable from Best Buy, but before I got it I emailed Best Buy to find out if the “audio” cable would help. They said no. So I then contacted SanDisk and they suggested I get another drive with a USB-C connector. That meant I would have to copy and paste everything on one drive to another using my laptop - something I wanted to avoid. I did that and the drive still didn’t connect to the SanDisk app. Never giving up I contacted Apple again. They set up a phone call with their “creative”department at a convenient time as the problem couldn’t be handled via chat. I allowed them remote access to my laptop and the resolution was right in front of my face, but I didn’t know it. I followed their remote blue arrow directing me to the files app. All I had to do was open the files app, found the thumbdrive, and there they were - all my photos - WITHOUT using the SanDisk app. I couldn’t however, access my videos this way, but can on my laptop and my husband’s older iPad. In the end I didn’t need to buy another drive, and copy and transfer all the photos because when I used the Apple connector with my original lightning SanDisk drive, the going to the file app, it worked. I’m just glad I finally figured it out with the help of an astute Apple support person - the third one. I’m sure they thought I was nuts because the solution was so simple. I use my ipadpro primarily for painting and didn’t realize it had a lot of laptop features like saving files. So I learned something new, but it took quite a while to get there. Now I have another thumbdrive to save more photos on. I suppose that’s not so bad. 

SanDisk, Apple and IpadPro No Go

We have several apple devices - iPhones, ipads, minis, pros. I wanted to put all of the photos that are on the phones - especially the really old phones - as well as the photos on a few thumb drives - on to a single item. So I got a SanDisk drive to do just that and spent a LOT of time getting all the photos moved over to it. I’m not the most technically capable person, but thought this was a great option to save - in particular -our overseas trip pictures. Aside from this arrangement I now save current photos to amazon prime. I’m still having difficulty understanding the Apple Icloud option. So I wanted to view my old photos that are now on the SanDisk thumb drive on my new iPad Pro. It’s a larger device and I can download items directly to it if I need to. I could also mirror the photos using Apple TV if I just wanted to look at them on an even larger screen, but that doesn’t solve my problem. So I searched around the Apple website for a connector/adapter and couldn’t find anything. During our morning walk at the Mall this morning we stopped at the Apple store to get some hands on advice. But, this didn’t work either. They said what they have may not be compatible with the SanDusk thumb drive but I could buy one and return it if it didn’t work. I’m not really sure why it wouldn’t but decided not to bother. I do have a work around but it is annoying. I really like my iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, but I really hate the connection port. So I’ll spend more time searching for a solution. There’s got to be something out there that works? Any thoughts?