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Just an update, Nik has invited me to test the Beta which has an option to delete immediately and skip the trash, this successfully avoids the issues when moving a large number of items to the trash.
Hi Nik, this is slightly off-topic but as a workaround for the problem above I tried to use Adobe Bridge on my PC to delete rejected photos from said external SSD. However it seems Bridge does not recognise Nitro’s rejected flags. When I filter by star rating it works fine, but for rejected images Bridge always shows 0 photos, even though the filters in Nitro on iPad work as expected. These are all RAW files and no JPEGs. Is this expected behaviour?
I’d be willing to beta test, however I can’t update to iPadOS 27 as Apple has just dropped support for my first gen 11” iPad Pro and I’m stuck at 26.7.
I’ve done a little experiment today to see if using APFS would improve the situation. I formatted another SSD as APFS and copied over the folder with the 700 raw images and their XMP sidecars. It felt even less responsive than the exFAT disk, indexing took longer and the move to trash behaviour was exactly the same. So on the plus side, it saves me from reformatting my main SSD as APFS, on the downside I still don’t have a solution to reliably delete rejected photos.
Thanks Nik, so I understand that this seems to be an iOS limitation when working with exFAT formatted external disks. (I’m on iPadOS 26.7). Can you think of any workaround other than backing up my SSD on a Mac and reformatting it as APFS? Is there a way to directly delete the images and bypass the .trashes folder? Or move all rejected images to a different folder which I can then delete using the files app? I’ve only got a very old MacBook that’s not my main computer and I’d want to avoid having to use it as a file system bridge.
Hi Nik, is there any update on this? While it seems the app is not freezing anymore when attempting to delete photos, I’m now at a point where I’ve got a folder containing roughly 770 photos of which 250 are marked as rejected. I can’t delete photos at all. Whenever I select photos and tap the trash icon most of the time nothing happens or only 1-2 of the selected photos get deleted after about a minute of waiting. Unfortunately I need to use exfat as I also need to access the SSD with a Windows PC.
Hi Nik, I’ve sent you the log via email to support@gentlemencoders.com. I’ve tested copying photos from the external SSD to the iPad‘s internal storage via the files app and I don’t get the same problem, deleting them via Nitro works fine.
Another observation from today: sometimes when deleting just a few photos (about 5 or so), Nitro resumes after being unresponsive for a few minutes and I get the „couldn’t communicate with a helper application“ pop-up.
