Instead, iOS locks files inside the same container that holds the app.

It can connect to both cloud services and servers on your network, meaning computers, file servers, and even storage devices attached to your router.

You can then move files between those network-accessible resources and GoodReader on your iPad.

Tap the Home button to go to the main GoodReader file list, and tap a folder to open its contents.

As you navigate the folder hierarchy, you see the path appear at the upper left of the screen; you can tap any folder in that path to move directly to it.

Then tap Manage Files at the bottom of the Manage Files pane; selection bubbles should appear to the left of the files and folders in the left pane.

The first button lets you use a primitive browser to go to websites and navigate within them to the files you want; the second button lets you enter the URL directly.

Tap Show All to see the list, and tap the Refresh button next to an item in that list to redownload it.

Tap Add to add a cloud service such as Dropbox or OneDrive, a WebDAV server, an FTP server, a Mac (called an AFP server), or a Windows PC (called an SMB server).

You have to enter the appropriate credentials to sign in to the desired cloud service or remote server.

All compatible servers on the current network display in the Servers Found via Wi-Fi list, and you can tap any to sign in; then you navigate its folder hierarchy to find files.

Tap the Settings button to the right of a server in the Known Servers list to enter your credentials for that server if you want GoodReader to sign in automatically the next time you open it.

You use the Sync button below a folder to start the sync, which makes the contents of the remote folder and the GoodReader folder be the same.

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