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I have an IPAD Mini; software: IOS 8.4
In IBooks, when I move a PDF into a category (ex: knitting, quilting, etc.) the PDF use to disappear (from the PDF category). It no longer disappears, it remains in the PDF category. Having duplicate PDF's uses up memory, as well! If I delete the PDF in the PDF category, the file is deleted in both categories.
Thanks in advance for any comments.
iPad, iOS 7.1
You could try a PDF specific app, such as PDF expert. I personally use that app to keep track of my piano music and organize it into folders.
The PDF collection is a pre-defined, smart collection that includes ALL files of that format. It is not possible (and never was possible) to remove PDFs from that collection. That's true of all collections listed in bold typeface.
You can keeps any single book or PDF in multiple collections. This does NOT duplicate any files.
What do you mean never was possible? It was so before 8.4.
Yes, I agree. Could it be with the new update things have changed, thus creating my issue?
You state no files are duplicated. If I move a file from one category to another and the file remains in the 1st, how can you state there are no duplication??
Putting a PDF (129 meg) which wasn't in a collection (apart from the PDFs collection) into one made no difference to the amount of space that the iBooks app was using on my iPad (Settings > General > Usage > Manage Storage > Books), nor the amount of available space (Settings > General > About > Available)
Computer files are not physical objects. You don't need to have two copies to have acces to them in two different drawers. All you have is two pointers, one in each collection, that point to the same file.
You can move files from/to custom collections. You can delete files, period. But some collections are based on rules. You don't control what's in them. Such is the PDF (bold text) collection.
Why? Interesting question.
Can be developer mistake but higly unlikely because Books collection (the one for epubs) works as it was from the beginning. Only the latest build , and only for PDFs they changed it, so it seems it is done deliberately. I hope this was a mistake by a developer who doesnt know how important the PDFs Collection and Books collection works the same and they change it back.
The funny thing is there is no workaround. You cannot go back to 8.3. Apple stopped signing the firmwares.
I hope they change it back or even better a future release of ITunes can allow us to copy new books to the collections from the Mac. That would be way better , at least for me.
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Kenjac
I have also experienced the same issue with the new version. Prior to the upgrade I could create a user specific category, move PDF files into the category which made "filing" my PDF's much easier as I stored a large number of reference material. Since the upgrade if I create a user defined category and "move" a PDF file into the user defined space the file is duplicated both in the PDF category and the user defined space. Delete one and both are deleted.
I would also appreciate a fix as the way it is now is a nuisance especially if you have a significant number of texts and manuals on the ipad. Prior to the upgrade I used over 7 user defined categories and it was extremely convenient.
That is how it works on iOS 8.4, the PDFs collection is a way of viewing all of your PDFs. If you put a PDF into one of your own collections you aren't creating a second copy of the PDF - delete the PDF from either PDFs or your collection and it will be deleted from both.
There are third-party apps that support PDFs e.g. GoodReader.
WHY WON'T PDF'S DELETE WHEN MOVED TO A CATEGORY
