Deleting in the app removes an item everywhere: from this phone, from every other phone on the same index, from your index and from your backup. The app always asks first.
- Select items and tap Del in the bar at the bottom, or open one and tap Delete.
- The app asks, naming what goes: Delete N photos?, Delete N clips?, Delete N documents?, or Delete N items? when the selection mixes them. Under it: Removed from every device, from your index and from your backup. This cannot be undone.
- On Android 11 and newer, Android shows its own confirmation for photos and clips as well.
- The items leave the results at once and are deleted from your index and from the phone's copy of it.
01 · PDFs go whole
- A PDF counts once in the title, however many of its pages you ticked.
- Delete on a single page asks Delete the whole PDF? and says how many pages it has: the file goes, and every page of it, everywhere.
02 · On the other phones and in the backup
- Every other phone on the index removes the item at its next sync: its file, its 720p copy and its entry. On Android 11 and newer, Android may ask there once before a file is removed; with All files access (the GitHub version) it is removed directly.
- With a backup, the file and its 720p copy leave your storage at the next backup run.
- In the viewer, a photo held only in the backend, with the cloud mark, shows Download where Delete would be. Ticked in a selection, Del removes it everywhere like any other.
If the index cannot be reached at that moment, nothing is lost: the next sync sees the files are gone from the phone and removes them from the index.
03 · Deleted outside the app
- A photo you delete in your gallery or a file manager leaves the index at the next sync. Only that phone's own files: another phone's photos are never removed because this phone does not have them.
- When more than half of the indexed photos are missing at once, the sync removes nothing: that is almost always a storage card that is not mounted or a permission taken away. If you really deleted them, the Sync screen offers Remove the N missing photos from the index. See when a sync stops early.
- Taking a folder out of the ones you sync asks whether to keep its photos in the index, hidden, or delete them from it. See choosing folders.