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LR mobile - downloading smart previews?

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LR mobile (iOS) 6.4.1
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Hi folks,
I have a question please:
In my LR mobile (on iOS), the smart previews seem to download only when I browse the images in an album. If syncing is currently turned off, there are no downloads and the images stay black. I suppose LR mobile is doing that intentionally to save local storage space.

But the thing is - it uses very little:

I have been browsing/viewing a couple of thousand files manually to get the smart previews to download --> 0.12 GB cache used
Download just one album with 600 files --> 1 GB estimated
That same album as RAW on my NAS --> 8.5 GB

I don't get it.
So basically my question is:
Can I get all the smart previews downloaded at once without having to browse 10,000s of files? I don't want to wait for them being downloaded, I want the smart previews to be displayed instantaneously.
 
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I specifically mean the cached files. They seem to have lower resolution than the smart previews. The estimate for storing pictures locally seems accurate. But that's too much for my taste on my current phone.
 
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