Disable default behavior of immediately download and cache file on touch

[eroji]

When you use the mobile app, you browse through your directory/files, when you click on a file, the default behavior is to immediate download/cache it to your local device. You can see this as the download progress animation will start and a green check mark overlay will show on top of the file. This doesn't seem very logical to me. The file could be huge and I might want to do something else instead of download it as soon as I touch it. AFAIK, there is no way to disable this default behavior. You can go into the app settings and delete local cache which will clean it out, but this is manual process every single time.

[marinofaggiana]

@eroji how it should be ?

[eroji]

It would make sense if you can disable the download on select to have an extra option to download when you select or long press the file.

[wty21cn]

+1. I have many photos which are large(40+m per photo) , sometimes I just want to see the full screen preview (generated by the preview generator app) but for now the app just download the whole photo automatically.
I think it is better to add a setting to disable this default behavior and add a download option at the popup option window

[DavidMndz]

The proposal looks logical for me as well. The main usage I have for Nextcloud is sharing photos and with IOS users, the application is useless since they get their devices full. Also, they have their data plan gone when they are not using wifi.

This was discussed in #697 and in #792.

[ChR-iSz]

Hey, developer. Can you please stop the iOS cache if i open a picture. That sucks my phone space! Why you not make a option on/off. The issue are since few years...

[ChildLearningClub]

I agree with everyone here. I have always wondered why this was the default behavior. Clearing the cache of all these unwanted cached files has the unwanted effect of also clearing all the cached thumbnails, which I would suppose most people would actually want, for the simple fact that it speeds everything up. But that can be a toggled option too :) either toggle options for what to cache, or toggle options of what to clear from cache. Both perhaps?

[ChR-iSz]

Looks like this thread is death. No answerer from developers. I say by by nextcloud...