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Warn when importing a backup from a newer db version #27

Closed Simon-Laux closed 3 years ago

Simon-Laux commented 4 years ago

I believe we should warn users when importing a backup with a db version thats newer than the max supported db version. Something along the lines:

This Backup was created from a newer Version of delta chat
and is likely to be incompatible.
Proceed?
(If you can update DC we recommend you to do that BEFORE importing this backup.)

What do you think? CC @hpk42 @r10s @link2xt

r10s commented 4 years ago

do you know situations, where this is a real issue?

Simon-Laux commented 4 years ago

Without a warning we can get more folks that report difficult to reproduce issues, linked to a broken database in this way.

r10s commented 4 years ago

hm, i think most issues with broken databases follow the normal increase-version-path - with maybe broken development versions in between. this won't be catched by such a warning.

Simon-Laux commented 3 years ago

now tracked in deltachat/deltachat-core-rust#2294

Simon-Laux commented 3 years ago

hm, i think most issues with broken databases follow the normal increase-version-path - with maybe broken development versions in between. this won't be catched by such a warning.

multidevice with one app more updated than the other is the usecase I have in mind for this.