Delete Things In Photos

[Darnell Rempe]

Tryingto start fresh after factory reset I don't want old photos on device phone gallery app I rather have old photos that are backed up on Dropbox cloud storage and keep phone gallery free for new photos not photos that are backed up on device

Do not want to share phone storage for old photos and videos I would like to have phone storage for new stuff only and cloud storage for old stuff only

If I delete photos on phone it will delete that same photos on cloud I do not want that I do not want old stuff on phone it would be pointless of cloud storage if old things are on my phone no point in online storage

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When you take a picture, it takes up some of your phone's storage space indeed. However, if you upload the content into your Dropbox, and then delete it off of your camera roll, then the picture would only take up some of your Dropbox storage.

I do not use Dropbox for backup storage; I use a different service for that. But friends and fellow students sometimes want to share files in Dropbox, so I set up a free account. Somehow, I don't know how, Dropbox uploaded some of my photos to the cloud and filled up my basic Dropbox space. I would like to take my photos out of Dropbox WITHOUT DELETING THEM FROM MY COMPUTER or other devices. This would give me the Dropbox space that I need for sharing. But when I try to do that, Dropbox says that it will delete my photos from all my devices! How can I empty my Dropbox without deleting my photos from my devices?

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If you want to be certain, move the photos out of the Dropbox folder to a new location on your drive. They'll be removed from your account online (freeing up space) as well as the Dropbox folders on any other computer linked to your account.

Like the other person, I only use this Dropbox account to backup photos/videos and then remove them to another safe place. This message that it will delete the files from ALL DEVICES is new and scares me! I have linked my boss and his wife's cell phones and both their iPads. I do NOT want to delete the files on their devices!! I simply want to take their cloud files out of Dropbox and move them to somewhere else...safely backed up. What can I do to INSURE that I'm not deleting their files from their phones/iPads??

You can delete specific files or photos on Microsoft OneDrive, or you can delete entire folders and all the items in them. If you need to, you might be able to restore deleted files from the OneDrive recycle bin.

To select all files in a folder, click the circle to the left of the header row, or press CTRL + A on your keyboard. (You can also select several files at once by selecting one file, scrolling down the list, then hold down the Shift key while left-clicking the last item you want to select.)

To remove items from your Recent view, select the files or folders you want to remove by pointing to each item and clicking the circle check box that appears. On the bar at the top of the page, select Remove.

If you want to keep a file, photo, or folder on your computer, but not on OneDrive, use File Explorer or Mac Finder to move the file outside your OneDrive folder to a different folder on your computer.

I have an iPhone XS 64 GB running on the latest firmware (iOS 13.5.1). I also have 200GB of iCloud storage that I use across all my apple devices. I still have over 100GB of free storage left on my iCloud. For the past couple of weeks, my iPhone has repeatingly been telling me that my iPhone storage is full. All my photos are saved in the cloud. I have deleted many and emptied out the recently deleted in my phone. It gave me the option to offload unused apps to iCloud, which freed up 7GB, but then a couple days later it claimed my storage is full again. I also deleted some apps too in hope it would free space. In addition, I cleared my safari history and website data which freed 5 GB, but then the next day my phone storage went back to full. I have deleted conversations and big files, yet theres no help in that. I look at whats using the most memory on my phone storage through the settings app and tried to delete some stuff. I have also deleted some apps and reinstalled them to clear some of those apps memory. I searched many thing online on how to free up memory. It says my system memory is 6.77GB and "Other" is 31.21GB. I noticed that the "Other" section keeps increasing. When I deleted the Safari History and Website data, the "Other" section went down to 27GB then the next day it refilled to 32GB. At this point, I am convinced the phone is trying to fill up my memory with something every time I delete anything. Nothing is working and it is getting frustrating. Can someone help me out with this?

I have same problem. I deleted almost 50% of photos (25GB), app data, still 30GB data is used by other system data & 5gb is software data. I can't even see system data details? Are they collecting our data? Please help I have to constantly delete items to continue using my phone. This is extremely frustrating. I have attached images below.

Hey guys, thank you for your replies. Appreciate your time and help. I did update my software and it did not work for me. Also I deleted and reinstalled applications, restarted my phone several times. I got the same issue. In fact other data storage keep increasing with activity.

At the beginning of this 'recover from iCloud backup' process, thanks to some of your comments, I decided to disable iCloud Drive. I aimed to avoid my iPhone to try to 'recover' too many files and then to get an error that the recovery requires much more storage than the iPhone has.

Could be that the Shared Albums on iPhone take extra space? Even though these Photos & Videos are shared by me and all these already exist in the main Photos album? Meaning that same Photos & Videos take double space (even though they do exist on iCloud sharing)

Just to add: I did erase completely my iPhone about a month ago for the storage issue but even after full recovery from iCloud backup, I still have the SAME problem - the Photos on iPhone occupy more space than they should!

By moving a file to Trash and then emptying the trash, or by doing a quick format of a traditional hard drive (i.e. not a solid state drive), you're actually not deleting files. Instead, all you are doing is deleting the information about those files. This means the operating system has absolutely no idea those files exist, let alone where on the drive they exist.

Another option users can take is to encrypt their Mac startup drive. This will secure your data because everything on the disk is encrypted. If you delete files, these will be unrecoverable or, more to the point, they can be recovered, but they're encrypted and therefore inaccessible to anyone who doesn't have the right credentials (e.g. login password, recovery key).

The files on the hard drive are all around and the system keeps pointers that point to the files. When you delete the file, you really only delete the pointer and the data is still there, but you can't find it with normal tools. The operating system will eventually overwrite that data with new data.

Before El Capitan you could securely empty the trash right in the menu, but that option is gone because it did not work as it should. In newer versions this could be done from terminal like this: diskutil secureErase freespace LEVEL /Volumes/DRIVENAME. Source: Does FileVault 2 also encrypt my free disk space?

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