"The folder contents could not be displayed" when trying to set up a synced folder

[hellpe]

Using version 0.5.7 from Flathub on Fedora Silverblue 38

Steps to reproduce:

• open Celeste and connect to a Nextcloud server
• click on the "add folder" icon
• select any local folder

After selecting a local folder, the following pop-up is displayed:

After dismissing it, I'm unable to set any remote folder. I've tried to launch the app from the command line using flatpak run com.hunterwittenborn.Celeste, but no relevant error message is displayed this way

[hwittenborn]

Thanks for the issue @hellpe! I've experienced that issue a few times in the past, but as soon as I dismissed it the folder would always show up in the local folder box. Is that note the case for you?

What do you mean by you're unable to set a remote folder? Does the Ok button just stay greyed out?

[hellpe]

Hello @hwittenborn! I've redone some testing (using both Nextcloud and WebDAV) and indeed, I failed to notice that the "Remote" field was still editable and the "OK" button can then be pushed. I guess I was confused by the error pop-up and the lack of a proper file picker, but syncing appears to be working (or at least started) regardless. Sorry for the confusing description!

[rastarr]

I successfully got a dropbox token and connected. Unfortunately, I'm using nixOS and the stable/unstable version of celeste is currently 0.5.2 I'm getting a pile of errors once connected so I'm presuming there's been bugfixes since this version. I'll need to wait til the repos catch up a little for more testing.

by the way, does celeste cater for offline/online mode or is it tied to selective sync, like the dropbox version?

[hwittenborn]

You're all good @hellpe. That error message does need to not show up though, I'm not quite sure why it currently does that but it's definitely not intended behavior.

What do you mean by Celeste doesn't have a proper file picker? Are you just referring to the fact that the error message shows up, or is it something else? I'm just asking in case there's something else you're wanting looked at.

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I'm getting a pile of errors once connected so I'm presuming there's been bugfixes since this version.

I'd probably err on the side of it being due to the older version, though I wouldn't be sure on anything. The only supported version is ever going to be the latest one, so I'd definitely try to get the new package on your system whenever it becomes available on NixOS.

does celeste cater for offline/online mode or is it tied to selective sync

What do you mean by catering to offline/online mode?

Also I'm good to close up #76 then, right @rastarr? It sounds like everything's working for you?

[rastarr]

this is offline/online mode in my macOS Dropbox which is missing completely in the 3 year old Linux version of dropbox

[hwittenborn]

That's being tracked in #42 @rastarr. I'll post any updates about that over in that issue.

[hellpe]

What do you mean by Celeste doesn't have a proper file picker? Are you just referring to the fact that the error message shows up, or is it something else? I'm just asking in case there's something else you're wanting looked at.

I was alluding to the fact that there is no button to open a file picker in the "Remote" field, forcing me to fill out the field manually (there's only some autocompletion). Not sure if this a known behavior.

[hwittenborn]

Thanks for the heads up on that @hellpe. I had the autocompletion going because I wasn't aware of any way to really get a GUI file picker going while using rclone, but I literally just remembered that rclone supports mounting which should allow using the system's native file picker.

I'll try to get something going for that soon - I've never been a huge fan of the autocompletion for the file dialog, and the above method should be quite a better improvement.