Hi, I need some advice. My phone is overloaded with photographs that I’d like to delete after posting to iNaturalist. I’ve got hundreds of photos from the city nature challenge and I’d like to get rid of the random leaves of trees and grasses. I’m just afraid that if I delete my photographs from my …

As long as the observations are synced to iNat, then iNat is no longer using the locally stored photo. But it’s important to note that if your original photo is larger than 2048x2048, then the version that iNat is storing is lower resolution. So if you had larger photos (which most people do), iNat…

If you’re not opposed to sending more dollars to Mr. Jeff’s humongous pockets, Subscribe to Amazon Prime and install their photo app. It allows you to automatically upload unlimited photos to your account – or even videos, but those are not free. But it’s a nice photo ‘backup’ solution and you can …

Again, you never know what will happen and what is valuable, I’ve been asked for originals of terrible phone photoes before, and was glad I stopped deleting any originals long ago.

marina_gorbunovaorbunova-Yolkina: you never know what will happen and what is valuable I recently upgraded my RAW batch processor (DxO’s PureRaw) package and that’s when I discovered that it did a measurably visibly better job at noise removal than it’s previous version (which I always thoug…

My enthusiasm for taking photos is infinite but storage space is not. I remove most photos, hoping that iNaturalist has an adequate back-up in place. I do keep ones I like or think will be useful.

is inat’s file compression in place because it would take a significant amount of storage space on inat’s end to store all those images? i wonder how much it costs just to keep stored all the photos the way they are already lol. do you know if audio files get compressed similarly in observations?

Definitely up to you and what your pictures are like/what they mean to you. Really exciting, special or impressive pictures I’ll keep and save to my Google Photos. The rest, I upload and bid adieu. But also majority are taken just to be uploaded and have no personal value to me other than to upload …

With licenced photos it costs nothing for iNat.

There is no post-processing on audio files to my knowledge. As far as I know, the maximum size and compression have been the same for a long time. You can read more in this thread . And more details about the program Marina mentioned here .

To add to what Marina said: frequently I see photos that look interesting but would like to see from a different angle. On several occasions asking the uploader for additional photos has turned up some great finds. Storing your photos (even the crappy ones) might mean that your observation gets ID…

I would never be able to have other photos of not-Inat stuff since they would accidentally be deleted in the mix. Also the amount of phone storage 40K photos takes up is 156 GB.

Can I delete photos on my device after posting them on iNat?

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Can I delete photos on my device after posting them on iNat?

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