Ios: Remove From Camera Roll After Successful Upload

[cwmke]

Is it possible to remove the files from Camera Roll after they are successfully uploaded in nextcloud?

[marinofaggiana]

yes but the code will ask user to confirm removal from Camera Roll

https://developer.apple.com/reference/photos/phassetchangerequest/1624062-deleteassets

[cwmke]

One option would be to allow users to select an option to remove duplicates since it can't smoothly be automated. The option could be in the overflow menu.

[ClaudiuLSH]

+1 for this feature.
Manually deleting images from mobile once in a while is not ideal.

[rEs-84]

+1 would much like for backed up pictures to be removed from the device.
Especially if the photo viewer tab gets more usable.

Can someone explain what "Remove files after upload" under advanced does, as it doesn't seem to remove anything.

[marinofaggiana]

@rEs-84 this option remove the file on cache locally after a upload

[rEs-84]

Interesting, makes sense (just doesn’t say cache).

Google photos has non automatic option to free up space by removing backed up photos.

[Happyfeet01]

Any news with this featurerequest?

[marinofaggiana]

@Happyfeet01 is too dangerous.

[army1349]

@Happyfeet01 is too dangerous.

I think users should be able to decide what is too dangerous for them.

[Happyfeet01]

Why too dangerous

[HobbledGrubs]

I think it is maybe too dangerous at the moment. My iOS app thinks that everything is uploaded but it has missed a lot of photos/movs. There have been a number of bugs that (I use S3 type storage) that have prevented upload from completing correctly. I have seen broken images on the Nextcloud side as well occasionally. There is definitely a reliability problem at the moment.

[Happyfeet01]

Okay, that's too dangerous...but i have no upoad problems, only with the Testflight Version .what is your Workaround? My storage on the phone is full

[HobbledGrubs]

Not ideal. I would generally check that the files were on Nextcloud via a browser and then delete. I was on holiday two weeks ago and didn’t check because my connection was slow. Bad mistake. Although the app said everything had been uploaded, a few days of photos hadn’t and I deleted the movs thinking they had.
It is currently stuck with about two months of photos not uploaded although it continues to upload new photos. No workaround for that problem yet.

On 31 Aug 2019, at 18:05, Happyfeet01 [e-mail] wrote:

Okay, that's too dangerous... what is your Workaround? My storage on the phone is full

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[Happyfeet01]

I try to delete the pictures and videos manually with PC Connection. And then every week. I would not use icloud photos

[HobbledGrubs]

Sounds tedious. I think the feature would be good, iCloud photos manages the problem without trouble. I imagine something like a hash/verify request to the server which can make sure the file exists on the Nextcloud server side.

On 31 Aug 2019, at 19:02, Happyfeet01 [e-mail] wrote:

I try to delete the pictures and videos manually with PC Connection. And then every week. I would not use icloud photos

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[Happyfeet01]

Why tedious? I think about to use icloud Photos again. Until Nextcloud can solve this problem

[HobbledGrubs]

I meant doing it manually was tedious. ICloud is great till you have to pay. 5Gig is peanuts today

On 31 Aug 2019, at 19:21, Happyfeet01 [e-mail] wrote:

Why tedious? I think about to use icloud Photos again. Until Nextcloud can solve this problem

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[purefan]

@marinofaggiana The situation is that the space in Camera Roll runs out.
We need to delete photos or videos to free up space.
The NextCloud app can upload images and videos.
After the photos/videos are uploaded to NextCloud we do not need them in the phone anymore.
We can download them again from NextCloud if we want them.
We are lazy and do not want to delete thousands of images by manually marking them one by one through the Camera Roll app, doing it this way is also risky because we are not sure which images/videos have been uploaded to NextCloud. But the NextCloud App does know this and has the power to delete these files from the phone.

Can you help us?

[privettoli]

@marinofaggiana why is this issue closed? Was it implemented?

[marinofaggiana]

I have some ideas and I will do some tests ...

[marinofaggiana]

https://github.com/nextcloud/ios/issues/1240

[privettoli]

@marinofaggiana I think it's important to distinguish two scenarios here:

1. 
   GIVEN an iOS user with a phone where storage is full of taken photos/videos
   WHEN the user opens settings and click Free Up Space button
   THEN all not uploaded photos and videos will be uploaded to NextCloud if there are any
   AND my phone allows to confirm deletion of all already uploaded photos
   AND my phone doesn't die due to low storage (should not download just uploaded files)

2.
GIVEN an iOS user with a phone where storage is not full
AND the user sets auto-deletion of uploaded photos/videos after some period of time (let's say 1 month after they are taken) in settings
WHEN the photo/video was uploaded and was taken/shot before 1 month ago
THEN on next NC scan of files, those files are deleted
AND I see the notification with a list of files that were deleted

I see the first issue as critical because that's the situation a new NC faces when they have installed NC and want to free up space on their device.
The second issue can be considered as non-essential (nice to have) feature.