When close file in Affinity, please reclaim memory space.

[Affinity Rat]

I saved then closed all my files in Affinity Photo but according to Ipad storage, the memory footprint of Affinity Photo hadnt changed.

My Ipad storage is relatively small, which necessitates file management.

After closing the files in AP, I then closed >80 files or multiple gigabytes of files from Ipad file storage allocation file list for Affinity Photo.

Please force AP to cleanup after itself, when closing files.

 

[Affinity Rat]

I discovered that the files displayed by Ipad storage are files on disk, so after deleting files in Ipad storage from what I thought was dedicated space for the app independent of of the files seen in file management are NOT independent.

After closing the files, I moved the into newly created folders on the disk. After deleting the AF files from Ipad storage for AP, it deleted the files in the newly created folders, so I lost all my files.

So apparently AP, links to files ie follows the files around even when moved to new folders.

Does this mean that its OK to move files around, AF is linked to them.

 

[Affinity Rat]

I noticed that this behavior was only to files in the Affinity Photo folder. I had deleted  files stored outside of the Affinity Photo folder, and deleting those files from the ipad storage did NOT delete the files in folders since they were not subfolders of Affinity Photo. 

By default files saved will be saved in the Affinity Photo folder.

So dont save files in the Affinity Photo folder if you want flexibility of cleaning up what AP doesnt.

 

[Affinity Rat]

So Affinity Photo retains links to files that have been closed and are no longer  displayed in the gallery.

However the files displayed in Ipad storage shows that the link still exists even though these files not displayed in Affinity Photo gallery.

My understanding was that AP used a sandbox, ie a dedicated area where file changes were made that was independent of what users could see. …Wrong, uncommitted changes are maybe saved in a sandbox which are then written to disk when saved.

Ipad storage for Affinity photo displays *.afphoto files within the Affinity Photo folder and subfolders, but not files outside this folder.