

If you only want the picture/video deleted from your Phone, do it with File Explorer.That's not the behavior I'm seeing on my phone (Lumia 929/Icon, W10 build 10586.107). So you don't seperately have to go to OneDrive to delete the picture/video again. If you in the pictures App, delete a picture/video, it will give you a message, saying it will be deleted on both places (camera roll and OneDrive). the picture will be deleted on OneDrive.Ī picture or video taken with your mobile, and stored on your camera roll, will be uploaded to OneDrive (if you enable that feature). the picture will be deleted on your phone and on OneDrive the picture will be deleted (which means it only exists on your phone) If you on purpose press the delete button on a picture, W10 will warn you that either:

So if your phone corrupts, and you loose some photos, they will still be there in OneDrive!Īnd because the new photo app collects everything found on your phone, and on OneDrive (I really LOVE that feature) you will not really notice it. If they happen to be older photos, I might not realize until too late (ie after they are gone from the recycle bin as well)Wait, it is not two way syncing to the cloud!īecause then the version on OneDrive would also be deleted if you deleted the picture from the camera roll with file explorer. If my phone corrupts and I lose some photos, I don't trust that the OneDrive will now think I deleted them on purpose and also remove them from the cloud. I have to say I don't like this change then. With only 32GB internal storage, and taking lots of videos of the kids, it has filled up quickly.Īny clarification, help, guidance, etc. Even if I have backups, what I really want is to be able to keep the pics/vids on Onedrive for occasional viewing, but NOT keep them on my phone. I'll back up the OneDrive copies first anyway, just to be safe, but I'd like to know if there are settings that control this behavior or not. I'm not sure if this is how auto-upload for photos & videos works for Win10 mobile on Lumia phones or not. How do I know if the versions on OneDrive will or will not also be deleted? Is there a setting for this? Often in cloud software there are sync settings which allow you to choose if things should be deleted on the server if they are deleted on the client. I'd like to delete a LOT Of them from my phone to free up some space on the limited internal storage (there's no SD slot on this phone).

I have auto-upload enabled for my camera photos and videos, and they are all accessible on OneDrive (so everything's been uploaded/backed up). I have a Nokia Lumia 929 (VZW Icon, aka Lumia 930 OUS) running Win10 build 10586.107.
