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Handle failures to open the profiles database more gracefully #32

Open io7m opened 6 years ago

io7m commented 6 years ago

Right now, if an account/profile exists with an account provider that has been removed, any attempt to open the profiles database will result in an exception. This exception is propagated to the main thread and as such the app will crash.

I'm not exactly sure what would be a reasonable way to handle a failure here; not being able to open the profiles database is not something that the app can recover from, but at the same time, perhaps the above shouldn't be a fatal error. Removing an account provider is something that can only occur by modifying the app and recompiling it, so it's hardly urgent, but it is something that will need to be handled in future once the account providers come from a remote server.