14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system has been recently found to be affected by a new storage bug, different from the “other storage” issue that emerged several months ago.
The new problem affects the manner in which photos are saved on the device, as both the MediaLibrary.SavePicture and MediaLibrary.SavePictureToCameraRoll methods are involved in this action, WPCentral reports.
Apparently, when saving photos to Windows Phone's Pictures Hub, the platform saves a copy of any picture in “isolated storage,” which sometimes can eat hundreds of megabytes of memory.
However, it seems that the issue emerges only with .jpg images, and not with .png ones, and that code to delete these photos can be written, at least this is what Kévin Gosse, the developer who discovered the problem, notes.
He also advises the deletion of temporary files in the isolated storage after saving photos to the Pictures Hub.