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Cleaning up old video in iOS app

catmapcatmap
in RaceChrono for iOS
Hello folks,

I've got 120gb đŸ˜Ŧ of video in Racechrono on my iPad, and I'd like to delete a lot of that to free up space. It looks like I can delete individual videos, which is going to take me a long time. Is it possible to do a 'batch delete'?

Many thanks!

Comments

  • aol_of_RaceChronoaol_of_RaceChrono
    There's no batch delete unfortunately. I see why it would ne nice...
  • catmapcatmap
    Urg, that's a shame @aol — feature request please! 🙏đŸģ
  • apt_phillyapt_philly
    When I was faced with this issue last year, I just deleted the app and data from IOS and then reinstalled the app. Not elegant but effective.
  • catmapcatmap
    That would certainly work @apt_philly! I don't want to delete the session history though ☚ī¸
  • catmapcatmap

    Hello @aol_of_RaceChrono - any more thoughts on this? I had to individually delete a couple of dozen video files on the iPad today. Took an age 😂 Please please add some way to batch select/delete video files stored in the app, it’ll be sooooo helpful please and thank you 🙏

  • aol_of_RaceChronoaol_of_RaceChrono
    edited May 2023
    @catmap No news. It's on the product roadmap. It takes time as we have plenty of items on the roadmap, and some are more important.
  • catmapcatmap

    Understood @aol_of_RaceChrono - I used to be a product manager in software, I acutely feel your pain 😂

    Device space is very important to us end users though 😀

  • aol_of_RaceChronoaol_of_RaceChrono
    The need is understood.
  • catmapcatmap

    👍

  • Cali_ChuckCali_Chuck
    edited September 24
    +1 for this RFE.

    I am trying to clean up a phone before a big trip where I'll be shooting lots of photos with it. Have over 100 sessions in RC, tearing my hair out trying to find the 2-3 sessions that have associated video files. Since each GoPro segmented file is 11GB on Hero 12 and a 20 minute session produces 2.5 GoPro segments this burns up space fast.

    Some alternative proposals to consider for this RFE:

    A simple approach to this feature would be just to replicate the one-click "clear cache" feature that is in lots of streaming and news apps. Blow away all the local support files that aren't actual sessions in one go.

    Another even simpler approach would be just add a little icon / visual cue in the Sessions list so its obvious that a given session has downloaded video. That would take most of the work out, still have to go session by session but could sharpshoot instead of opening every single session to check for video by hand.

    As a workaround RFE... since iTunes allows direct deleting of local app files for apps that expose themselves to iTunes, you could just turn this on. Then you don't have to otherwise change the app, just let the user do the work in iTunes. However the app has to show in the list under "File Sharing" on the device menu in iTunes.
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