Will Journals saved on iCloud remain after they're deleted on my iPad?

Question

I'm using iPhoto's at the moment and am having great fun with the Journals part of the app. However im not pleased with the image duplication which seems to be going on - but thats another thread!
Anyway, I've synced my first Journal to iCloud and everything works (mostly) fine.
However, my question is - if I delete the photos off my iPad (to save space), what happens to the Journal on iCloud? Will it sync with my iPad and therefore delete everything off there as well?
I presume not but I'm really not sure as there doesn't seem be any 'options' to change what iCloud does.
Cheers
Jez

Answer 1

The idea of journals for me is that I publish them to iCloud for others to see, and leave them online - I dont want them stored permanently on my iPad as then Im restricted in terms of storage space. Id be more than willing to buy more iCloud space to accommodate more journals online, but cannot justify a larger iPad at the moment (and dont believe we should have to).
Once a journal is published to icloud you should be able to remove the local files and continue to add to it, edit it and also edit it from other devices in my opinion.
But at the moment you cannot.
Im going to take this up with Apple, as I want to continue using journals, but would have to start removing other apps to make space if I wanted to continue!
I am glad I found your succinct statement of how one would expect the Journal option of iPhoto for iOS to function. There seems to be a great deal of confusion out there, even among Apple tech. support, as to the two main issues:
1. In order to free space on the iPad, how to remove a completet Journal and its data from the iPad , while keeping it on iCloud?
2. In case you want/need to re-edi/update the Journal, how to get it back onto the iPad to do the editing?
In the months since you published this, have you been able to come closer to a solution?
I learned it the hard way: I thought I could delete a completed Journal on the iPad and it would remain visible on iCloud, but that's not so, it's gone.  Thus I am puzzled by your experience below that uninstalling iPhoto will, of course, remove the data from the iPad, but will keep the Journal on the iCloud.
I've continued to use Journals (albeit a lot more hesitantly). I unfortunately didn't get a solution from Apple, other than uninstalling iPhoto which has the side effect of removing the data from the iPad but leaving the data in iCloud (but also has the side effect that the journals left in iCloud can never be editted again).
Fortunately I had saved the Journal to iCloud, and thus even was able to "re-load" this folder into the iPad (at least it shows up on in iTunes > Device > iPad > iPhoto > Data), but iPhoto on the iPad does not seem to recognize the re-imported folder.
If you have any further insights I'd highly appreciate some more pointers/suggestions.
Cheers from Austria
Veit