How to delete from gallery but not from sync drive

[telescope]

Hi all,

I have my gallery sync on with one drive, and it's great. But I want to delete things on my phone but not delete it from the one drive. Can this be done ?

I want for it save all my content to the drive... I have more space on the cloud than I have on the phone. Any suggestions? 

[Basialacko]

I have a S22 and getting the message 'no items' message in free up phone space. @SocietyGirl can you please help

[Basialacko]

 I have S22 and when I try following your advice, I get the no items message. Could you please advice? My phone is full and would like to know the best way to to transfer photos and videos from my phone.  Thank you

[Jason18542]

I performed the Free up phone space, but now I want the images back in my phone Gallery

No matter what I do, the images only appear in the Onedrive folder but not in the samsung synced gallery
I have :
- Unlinked and relinked microsoft account

- Cleared cache and data

- I cannot uninstall and reinstall as others have suggested as both Onedrive and Gallery are system apps

- Redownloading the images creates new images with altered metadata (date created is all current day)

Is there anyway to reset this?

[Members_4r6eCvX]

when I go to Gallery - settings - sync with one drive  that is all I get. It does not say Free up phone space

[DRichy]

I've got a Samsung S23 Ultra and have been trying to work how to delete things off my phone but keep on the One Drive for ages so thank you for this! I'm just worried about hitting "free up space" and losing everything off my phone and Onedrive but looks like I'm.gonna have to be brave haha