Auto-upload conflicts, yet again -- this is a never ending problem

[brianjmurrell]

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Steps to reproduce

1. Configure your device's photo storage for auto-upload
2. Take some photos
3. Get a notification about conflicts
4. Click notification to see conflicts
5. Click one that says "Sync conflict, please resolve manually"
6. Wait a few seconds

Expected behaviour

File should be uploaded to the server.

Actual behaviour

Toast message saying:

File not found. Are you sure that this file exists or has a previous conflict not been resolved?

Android version

16

Device brand and model

Pixel 8 Pro

Stock or custom OS?

Stock

Nextcloud android app version

33.0.1

Nextcloud server version

31.0.9

Using a reverse proxy?

No

Android logs

No response

Server error logs

Nothing

Additional information

I'm not even sure why the Android app is saying there is a conflict as I have checked the server and the file reporting the conflict does NOT even exist on the server.

The Android device in question is not kitted to get debug info. It is a "production" device for a user and Developer options is not an appropriate security model for this device.

Ultimately this seems to be just yet another (of the many) bug(s) with auto-upload. I wish this feature could just work without constantly being a bug-ridden steaming pile.

[alperozturk96]

@brianjmurrell Hey

Thank you for the report. I created a PR for this once the APK is generated could you please try and share your feedback?

PR: #16819

[brianjmurrell]

@alperozturk96 So, I installed the APK but it's a fresh copy of Nextcloud Android that has none of the customized (auto-upload and otherwise) config that my Nextcloud Android app has, so it will not see the same (buggy) behaviour and reproduce the same bug (to verify that it's fixed) as the proper Nextcloud Android app.

Unless I am misunderstanding what you are asking me to do.

[brianjmurrell]

So, diving into this a bit deeper, I configured an auto-upload for the folder that has the files that are getting the sync conflict on Nextcloud Android (proper) but since I do not want to spend hours re-uploading thousands of photos in the QA app installation I did not enable Also upload existing files (since it's my understanding that that that option is not actually intelligent enough to not upload what is already on the server and just uploads everything in the local device folder, even overwriting the same existing file on the server if they are there already -- and I simply DO NOT want in any way to do that).

So TL;DR: I'm not sure how I am supposed to utilize this QA build to test this bug fix. I need an official Nextcloud Android build that will use the same database as my existing (non-QA) build to be able to see if this fixes the bug. AFAICT. Please correct me if I am wrong.