iPad claims storage is full but storage is clearly not full

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iPad claims storage is full but storage is clearly not full

Does anyone know what causes this? I was trying to export a 7 GB archive out of LumaFusion and the process aborted, claiming storage was full. When I jumped into Settings, I briefly had an alert that storage was full, but the alert disappeared almost immediately. In the anttached image you can see that I have almost 300 GB free; surely the 7 GB export does not need this much space.

I bump into this regularly when exporting from LumaFusion. It fixes itself it I reboot the iPad, but what is going on here? Is this a fragmentation thing? Is there something I can be doing to avoid the aborted exports?

iPad Pro 12.9-inch Wi-Fi, Cellular

Posted on Feb 26, 2023 8:43 AM

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babowa

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Feb 26, 2023 8:58 AM in response to martyscholes

Have you checked with the developer on what their system requirements are for editing and rendering? 4k files are huge and, on a Mac, you need a minimum of twice the space your temp. files are for those processes. 300 GB isn't all that much depending on the number of files and the length of the project.

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martyscholes Author

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Feb 26, 2023 9:02 AM in response to babowa

I don’t think the developer knows what’s happening either. The archive (which is just a dump of the media and some metadata) is 6.58 GB. Suppose it needs 10x that for temp files, then I need 65.8 GB of free storage, only a fraction of what is available. That does not even include the space the iPad could reclaim by purging iCloud file downloads and Photos media, which is several hundred additional GB available. This is just odd.

Clearly I just need to upgrade to a 2 TB model.

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babowa

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Feb 26, 2023 2:10 PM in response to martyscholes

In the "old days" (no 4k and only a sort of close to HD), with my camera at 1280x720, I used to amass 100 - 150 GB of temp files while working on a one hour project. So, I'd guess it'd be 3 - 4 times that what with today's higher resolutions. I don't know if I'd try to do that kind of work on an iPad; I still use an iMac with a good processor, plenty of RAM and an abundance of drive space.

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