I need to free up space on my iPad. If I delete most of the photos on my iPad will they still remain on my PC?
I need to free up space on my iPad. If I delete most of the photos on my iPad will they still remain on my PC?
iPad Air, iOS 12
I need to free up space on my iPad. If I delete most of the photos on my iPad will they still remain on my PC?
iPad Air, iOS 12
Then yes, its possible they may be deleted:
Delete photos and videos in iCloud for Windows - Apple Support
What happens if a photo or video is deleted from an Apple device or iCloud.com?
If you delete a photo or video stored in iCloud Photos from your Apple devices or from iCloud.com, one of the following happens:
Depends on how they got on your PC.
If you are using the iCloud Photo Library, then any changes get synced across devices. so if you delete something from the iPad it will sync to iCloud and down to other devices accessing the iCloud Photo Library and be delete from everywhere.
If you transferred the photos in any other way to the PC, then deleting them from the iPad should not affect the PC.
You can turn off iCloud Photo Library on the iPad, and then delete the pics from the iPad to not affect the PC.
Not unless the J:\Photos\Pictures\iCloud Photos\Downloads is actually syncing to iCloud Photos.
In general, the iCloud Photos folder is on C:\ and cannot be changed directly. It appears as a location directly in Windows Explorer. So if you are physically copying the photos from there to downloads in your J: drive, then they are no longer synced to iCloud.
Set up and use iCloud for Windows - Apple Support
On my computer J is the same as C - I need to remember not to post that entire address, as folks get stuck on the drive letter.
So in essence, if I delete the images located in iCloud Photos\Downloads will the images be deleted on my iPad?
Thanks
Hmm, ok. I thought it would stay on my PC. I do have a folder on my PC from when I manually synced photos from my iPad. I think I will create sub-folders in it and move the pics over.
So the icloud sync images are here J:\Photos\Pictures\iCloud Photos\Downloads and I am going to move those images to J:\Photos\Pictures\iPad Air segmented into sub-folders by month.
When I do that will all of the images I removed from the J:\Photos\Pictures\iCloud Photos\Downloads automatically delete the folders off my iPad?
I need to free up space on my iPad. If I delete most of the photos on my iPad will they still remain on my PC?