Affinity Photo 2 takes up a lot of space even with no photos in it. Is there a button to “flush” all the temporary files?

[Eirik]

Maybe I’m assuming incorrectly, but I’m assuming that the reason the app sometimes takes up a ton of space on my iPad is that there are hidden temporary files?

Right now my iPad is telling me that it’s taking up over 9gb of space even though I have no photos loaded in it.

Is there a way to get it down to just the base size of the app itself? Is there a button? This is pretty frustrating.

[walt.farrell]

Have you Saved everything you need in the app's Home Screen (Live Docs in V2), and Closed those files? 

How many Assets, Brush Packs, etc. have you installed?

[Eirik]

As I said, there is no photos in the app at all. It’s empty. I also have not installed any brushes or anything. 
 

I run my photos through this app because I like how much nicer the final resized jpegs of my photos are when I export from this app instead of Lightroom. So every time I export I delete my photos right afterwards. I don’t need to keep them in Affinity Photo.

I also stitch panoramas and make focus stacked images in this app. But just like before, I delete the photos from the app once I’m done exporting them to where I need those files.

So it’s weird that the app takes up so much space when I don’t have any photos loaded into it. 

[Paul Mudditt]

16 minutes ago, Eirik said:

As I said, there is no photos in the app at all. It’s empty. I also have not installed any brushes or anything. 
 

I run my photos through this app because I like how much nicer the final resized jpegs of my photos are when I export from this app instead of Lightroom. So every time I export I delete my photos right afterwards. I don’t need to keep them in Affinity Photo.

I also stitch panoramas and make focus stacked images in this app. But just like before, I delete the photos from the app once I’m done exporting them to where I need those files.

So it’s weird that the app takes up so much space when I don’t have any photos loaded into it. 

It seems to be something to with how iPadOS handles sandbox disk space/virtual memory. The only known way of recovering I believe is to delete the app and then re-install. If you have any of the other apps you won’t lose your installed fonts, brushes etc but if you only have AP then you will need to re-install any third party assets you may use. Anything from the Serif store will be available again when you log back into your Serif account.

[Eirik]

Oh okay. Incredibly annoying that iPadOS is like this! Thanks for the answer!