Cleaning up locally stored raw files (Android)?

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September 11, 2021
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Occasioanlly I use LR Mobile to import my RAW files from the camera when I'm out for a longer time. Problem is the camera stores all the raw files as a copy in its own folder structure.

Those raw files are synced with the cloud now, I put them in the right folders on my PC after cloud download, they are still in the cloud.

I don't need that copy in my local phone memory. How do I get rid of them?

And no, just deleting the whole apps storage is not an option because I have synced about over a hundred albums with smartpreviews for local storage, those I want to keep. And it would be a pain to resetup this.

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Jao vdL

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Are you syncing them to Lightroom Classic or to Lightroom Desktop on your PC? If you are syncing to Classic, you should just unsync them there by deleting them from the "all synced Photographs" special folder and they will get deleted from all your other devices. If they are synced to Lightroom Desktop, you need to somehow convince your phone to offload them from local storage. That should happen automatically when they are uploaded into the cloud after a short while (perhaps one or two days). At least it does on my iOS devices. You do need to open Lightroom on the phone for this to happen and not be opening those images for editing on the phone.

WurstkrapfenAuthor

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Jim Wilde

Community Expert

Have you tried the "Clear Cache" command on the app's Settings>Device Info & Storage tab? That should remove any locally stored originals that have already been synced to the cloud. I assume that in the Settings>Preferences you have "Only Download Smart Previews" enabled?

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someone2

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Yes I did "clear cache" before posting, it got me down from 220gb to the mentioned 173gb.

Did not have that option checkes, but as I said that device is importing and uploading the raw files, not downloading them.

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someone2

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Also I'm just using 42 GB of my cloud storage.

WurstkrapfenAuthor

Inspiring

The App itself says it uses 173 GB, the folder (I have access too on an unrooted device) "Android/Data/com.adobe.lrmobile" holds only 40 GB, what about the rest?

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