On Aug 18, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Gopiballava wrote: > On Aug 18, 2011, at 14:03, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Apple should just flag those files on the computer so that you can choose to >> delete them from your main repository (which will be their computer(s) for >> most people) > > This adds an extra layer of file management that it would be nice to avoid. > Your computer could well get very cluttered.
Couldn't it be just a view as in "All My Files" ? However, it's solved (if it even needs solving), I know that I don't want a file deleted on my computer if I need to remove it from a mobile device. Perhaps that can be an option in a pref. > >> since our mobile devices hold far less storage, I'd imagine we are going to >> be deleting files off them regularly - >> I don't necessarily want those files deleted from my computer > > Depends on the document types. I don't think that Apple is intending for > iCloud to be used for huge media files. Every piece of text I have ever > written could be synced easily. Every photo I've taken, not so much - 250GB+. > Documents without video or photos should be everywhere easily. My Documents folder is 52GB right now. > > Whether there are any iOS apps that will handle letting you look through 100+ > documents, I'm less sure of. I think the iOS file selector dialogs will be > the limiting factors for most people before the size of the documents. good point! But I really don't want deleting a document from a mobile device to delete it from my computer. This may simply require managing the syncing in a smart way from my computer. May not be an issue at all. K > > Thanks, > > gopi@iPhone _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
