Is it possible that I delete all the data that I transfer to the iCloud with DTTG on the iPhone afterwards locally on the mobile phone? My goal is that all documents are stored in the iCloud and downloaded on the mobile phone if necessary, so that they do not take up any storage space on the iPhone, because I remove them locally again after reading them.
So only the entries of the documents that are stored in the iCloud remain on the iPhone.
It seems that all files will be downloaded automatically to the iPhone after having deleted them locally even if I selected “download manually”.
Sorry, I just wanted to keep a long story short. But here is the full challenge:
I maintain all documents on Devonthink on the Macbook. On the road, I use DTTG on the iPhone and sync via iCloud (CloudKit).
For some time now, I’ve also wanted to give my wife the option of accessing documents from the same database on her iPhone. But since she has her own iCloud account, the synchronisation does not work with my MacBook.
Therefore, I first transferred all files to her DTTG app (setting Load files: always) on her iPhone via Bonjour. Then I uploaded the data to her iCloud via CloudKit. Now I switched the Load Data button to manual and deleted all files locally to save storage on my wife’s iPhone.
At the same moment, the app starts downloading the deleted files back to the mobile phone.
I had hoped that my wife would not have to carry the files around on the mobile phone, but could download them as needed. That’s exactly how it works on my iPhone. Why not on my wife’s? What am I doing wrong or is the idea described too absurd?
I am not a native English speaker, so I have just a clue of the difference between delete and purge. I use the German version of the app, which has two options. The first is called „löschen“ (delete) and the second is called „lokal entfernen“ (remove locally).
Thank you, Jim, we are one step further. The switch is indeed set to “Always”, unfortunately I cannot change to “Manual”. Unfortunately nothing happens, I can’t change the slider.
