Photos - Resync again after deletion

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Photos - Resync again after deletion #1159

Closed vishnukvmd closed 1 day ago

vishnukvmd commented 5 months ago

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Description

Steps to reproduce:

sync all your iOS photos with Ente Photos
delete photos from Ente Photos on macOS, empty trash and kill app
relaunch iOS app, the deleted photos start synching again
reopen macOS and notice that all the deleted photos are here again...

This is not the first it happens. I took a lot of time selecting and deleting A LOT of pictures on macOS. Now I have to start again and am very afraid to lose time again :/

What product are you using?

Ente Photos

What platform are you using?

Mobile - iOS, Desktop - macOS

vishnukvmd commented 5 months ago

Proposed workaround

sync photos on iOS and macOS Ente Photos apps
close both apps
open macOS Ente Photos application
delete photos from macOS Ente Photos application without emptying trash
open iOS Ente Photos application and let it sync trash history
once trash history is synched, empty trash from iOS

paulhovey commented 5 months ago

I just noticed something that might or might not be related. I'd deleted a bunch of photos from the desktop app (on Windows) and let the trash sync (did not empty the trash) with the iPhone app so it knew not to re-upload those photos. I think the 30 day trash expiry just occurred, because now the iOS app is wanting to re-upload all the photos that previously had been deleted from the desktop app.

ua741 commented 5 months ago

because now the iOS app is wanting to re-upload all the photos that previously had been deleted from the desktop app.

Once the trash entry is synced, the app should not automatically reupload those entries that were previous deleted. When you open the device folder, you should still see the message that some of the items are ignored for delete because they were previously deleted. If this is not happening, then it looks like a regression.