How to free up space on iPad after using “Store Locally” option

[ozanners]

Lightroom Version Number

iPadOS 9.1.1

Operating System

1. iOS

Hi

I have a lot of images in collections synced to the cloud as smart previews from Lightroom Classic, I want to use my iPad to sort and cull many of these images. I can see these collections as albums in Lightroom on my iPad, however working with these in the cloud is slow. Each image needs to load before I can make a quick judgment about things like critical focus, so a blurry preview isn’t enough.

Obviously I have the option to ” Store locally”, and Lightroom will download the smart previews to my iPad, allowing for quicker processing. However, as I have so many images, I cannot have them all synced to my iPad at the same time. What I would like to know is if I “store locally” one album at a time, temporarily, when does the local storage get purged once I switch off the “ Store locally” option?

I have tested this with a small album and while it quicky downloaded and used up storage on my iPad, it didn’t free up the space when I switched the “store locally” option off.

I contacted Adobe support, but couldn’t quite get them to understand what I was talking about, so I thought I would ask here. If anyone has any input, I would appreciate it.

Thanks.

 

[ozanners]

Ok, looking again at the app, I think I can achieve this by clearing the cache after switching off the “store localy” button?

Is that correct?

 

[Paul McFarlane]

That's correct. And it's intelligent to know any originals not yet uploaded aren't cleared.

 

[ozanners]

Thanks for confirming that Paul.