InstantUpload files duplicated in ownCloud folder

[codeling]

After enabling the InstantUpload feature, all photo files seem to be duplicated by the client - they exist once in their original location in the DCIM folder, and once in the /owncloud/user@ochost/(Instant|Sofort)Upload folder.
This seems redundant to me - I don't see any use in having those duplicate files? The only thing I can think of which such a copy could achieve would be marking which files are successfully uploaded? But there surely is a simpler way of doing that than to just copy the file? Maybe store a file with the same name as the image plus e.g. .hash suffix, containing a hash of the uploaded file?
Those copies just wastes a lot of space on my (non-extensible) internal storage.

Using the latest version available in Market (1.4.3).
Server version is 6.0.1 (but is going on since 5.0.13 at least).

[masensio]

When you activate the InstantUpload feature and take the photo, the app creates a copy of the photo in its IntantUploads folder and uploads it to the server.
The app needs to storage the image into InstantUploads folder, because this folder shows the content of the InstantUploads folder of the server. This causes that the files are duplicated, you are right.

Maybe there could be other options for implementing this feature, not including duplication of images.

For now, to avoid this duplication, you can select with a long press on InstantUploads folder: delete -> local content only, regularly.
In this way you will have your images in your server and in your camera folder.

I hope this can help you with your storage problem.

[davivel]

The files are copied because it's the easiest way to avoid problems when a user has several accounts, uploads the same file to different accounts, mark both as kept-in-sync and tries to update them in different ways.

Yes, it's a complex situation and we could handle it better. But when we had to implement in the past we didn't have time for more.

And it's duplicating #346, since the policy is for all the uploaded files, not just instant uploads. So please, track it there.

[codeling]

Oh, must've missed the other issue, I'll be watching that! Thanks for the great work.

[Bugsbane]

Might be helped by pull #919 Not sure.