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Dealing with large records

 

Apple has set a limit to the amount of data that can be transferred to iCloud within a single request. In general, record sizes fall significantly below that limit with the exception of records that carries high definition photos (the number of photos that can be attached to a record is dependent on the size of each photo). When this occurs, i.e, iCloud rejects a transfer because of the size of the record, the app will notify you of this error and gives you the opportunity to edit the record (and reduce its size) or to disable iCloud operations.

 

As photos are the components that have the most impact on the size of a record, the app provides a mechanism to specify the compression rate when saving a photo. You should compress high definition photos as to ensure the size of the record remains below Apple specified limit.

 

Hence if you need to change the compression level used on a photo, select the photo in the Photo Subview, then modify the compression ratio (in this case, increasing that ratio). An alert will ask you if you want to save the photo with the new ratio (which you should accept if the intention is to reduce the size of the record). Once the photo is re-saved, you must save the record. Saving will record will re-initiate its transfer to iCloud. If the record is still too large, a new alert will be shown and you can try to reduce the size of the record further.

Note that if you have multiple photos attached to a record, you might have to repeat that compression process with all the photos. Finally, if you have a lot of photos attached to a record, you might not be able to reduce the size of the record under the limit set by Apple even if you compress all the photos. In this case you might have to remove some of photos altogether. One possible way would be to split the record into multiple records with the main record being the parent of the other, photo holding records.

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