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UPDATE: I'm pleased to report that the release of iOS 14 has apparently corrected the problem! After upgrading yesterday, I imported images into Photos, and then returned the SD card to my Fujifilm X-E2. I was able to cycle through the photos on the camera without any errors. I repeated this process 5 times just to be sure, taking more test shots without formatting the card in between. Each time I was able to read the card when I reinserted it into the camera. As far as my limited testing shows, the issue has been fixed. Hopefully this resolves the problem for people using other makes and models, too. As a side note, the new version of Photos looks sharp, and is laid out cleanly. The import function in particular is more logically presented overall.

For those following this thread, I found another online discussion about card read errors that might provide some clues. It's from 2014, but talks about how Macs leave extra files on volumes. I'm not sure if this is true for cards read on an iPad, but it seems reasonable to assume it does - especially in view of the fact that locking the cards works around the issue. It may be that Fujifilm cameras (and possibly others) can't handle the added data. https://www.fujixseries.com/forums/topic/7306-read-error/

Thanks for the reply, and sorry for the late follow-up. I set this matter aside since I've not traveled recently. I'm getting ready to take a trip, and decided to revisit it. I chatted with an Apple tech online, but he didn't have any familiarity with the specific issue I was having. So I decided to buy an official Apple card reader, but that didn't resolve the issue. I did find locking the card works, but that's a hassle to remember and I'm afraid the little switch will eventually loosen up. I may try using photos shot on a different camera just to make sure it's not the camera that's at fault. Also, iOS 14 debuts today, so I'm holding out hope that maybe it's being addressed in the most recent iteration.

That's a good suggestion. In my case, my intention in buying the iPad was to mitigate the need to take a computer on trips, so this wouldn't really work on the road.

I'm guessing you have an iPod Pro? Mine is a 5th gen 2017 model, with a lightning port. So to make that solution work, I'd need to mess with more adapters. I'm also concerned that it might just end up corrupting the card inside the camera in my case.

This is a really late reply, but I'm still dealing with this issue. I just purchased the official Apple reader myself, and am still having the same problem. May I ask what kind of camers(s) you've used when running into this issue? I'm wondering if certain cameras are more sensitive to subtle changes on the memory card. I've found that locking the memory card does, in fact, prevent the subsequent read errors. But that's a tiresome workaround. I know iOS 14 comes out today, and am hoping that may help.

Thanks, Cecil. I may try giving them a call. It's a refurbished 2017 iPad, though, so I don't know if they'll provide free support to someone who isn't the original owner.

I realize this may be more of a general iPad issue, but I haven't been able to find an answer elsewhere. I purchased a VELLEE SD Card Reader so I could access photos taken with my Fujifilm X-E2. It works well, and with a bit of fudging around (copying my files from the card to the iCloud since I can't find a way to directly access the card from within Affinity), I'm able to edit and export just fine. The problem is that when I remove the card and insert it back into the camera, I often get an error message to the effect that the card is unreadable. Consequently, I can't take more photos on that specific card until I reformat it. That's potentially problematic when I'm on the road, since I own a finite number of cards. I've been able to read the cards just fine with a USB reader from my desktop PC, although I do sometimes get prompted that Windows needs to fix the disk. I'm reasonably certain this "corruption" is being caused by iOS mounting and accessing the card. If what I've read is correct, there's no "eject" function on the iPad, forcing one to simply unplug it when it isn't engaged in obvious read/ write operations. I haven't tested it, but I'm guessing a possible workaround would be to engage the lock tab on the SD card before inserting it into the iPad reader. If the iPad can't write to it, then file corruption shouldn't be possible. My only concern there is that I've seen those little tabs get loosened up, and lock themselves when you're loading it into a camera, and I'd rather not risk wearing one out. Aside from the locking option, has anyone else faced this problem and come up with an elegant solution to avoid it?

I wish I'd read this discussion thread before I spent $1.99 in the App store a few minutes ago. Being new to iOS, I'd just assumed that the few fonts I saw within Affinity Photo were all that are available on the device. The one thing I've learned from the AnyFont app is there are tons of fonts already installed. I really hope Affinity fixes this issue so I can use something besides Arial in my compositing.

Thanks, Sara. That got me closer to where I'm trying to go.

Please bear with me on this question because there's an excellent chance I'm not using correct compositing terminology. I'm a newbie to both the iPad and the iPad version of Affinity Photo. I've been trying to get a handle on some basics of compositing. Here's where I'm getting stuck: I've made a selection from a smaller 6MP RAW photo that I'd like to place on an image chosen from Unsplash (in this specific case, a selection of a person being placed into an image of a field). Through trial and error, I've learned you can copy and paste a selection using the pasteboard feature. Where I'm getting stuck is when importing the stock photo, the view of the stock photo is constrained to the smaller dimensions of the original image. I can pan around this new background, and see that the entirety of the image is "there." I just can't figure out how to expand the stock background to its full extent. I'd like to expand the composited image to the full dimensions of the added stock photo. Is there a simple way to do this?