fire hd 10-amazon prime video app not releasing space when videos deleted

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XRaiderV18

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May 12, 2019
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so, I have a 2019 year release amazon fire hd-10 tablet, and obviously I'm running the amazon prime video app(which I like).

I even take advantage of the microsd card(have a 400gb card installed).

most days its a joy to use.

somedays however..not so much.

particularly when deleting movies to make room for new movies, or as in today's case, deleting SD versions of movies(eg battleship, the martian etc) to redownload as HD(I purchased 4k for my fire stick 4k, so took the chance to update the tablet's files).

it literally ate 3gb out of 4gb on my memory card. by that I mean I deleted 4gb worth of movies(battleship and the martian) so I could put higher quality versions on.

so...given prime video app appears to be a VERY sloppy housekeeper..how do I address this? I would like the space back, preferably without having to wipe the card, but am prepared to do so should it be required.

where does prime video store its downloaded movie files exactly? I'd prefer a targetted wipe in terms of deleting the download location's content, I can redownload all the movies again pretty easily.

does anyone have any ideas?