Metadata files with extremely frequent updates

Thanks so much for the quick replies, @aurdipas and @LN . Very helpful.

Hélène, thanks for the tip on updating only after changes/submissions. Very wise.

My questions have been fully answered (merci!). I have some follow-up based on what Hélène wrote:

Depending on the size of your entity lists it can take up a lot of storage. You can elect to remove some stale form attachments though that has to be done directly from the database and is risky.

  1. "Take up a lot of storage" refers to (a) on the android device or (b) on the Central server (or both)? I'm assuming (b) only, but have not found any documentation indicating this. I also hope it's B only, as I think Android 11 makes managing clean-up on device nearly impossible (?).

  2. Our entity lists are likely going to be fairly large. 10-20k households with as many as 100k individuals, along with approximately a dozen variables on each. Therefore, I think we will likely want to "remove some stale form attachments" as we go, even though this "has to be done directly from the database and is risky" (and we'll likely want to automate this). I've looked but have not found any examples or documentation regarding how to go about removing stale metadata/versions. Any tips and/or resources that I may have missed?

Again, thank you!!!