Generating thousands of conflict notifications each day

[vKnmnn]

Steps to reproduce

• have conflicting files

Expected behaviour

• Tell us what should happen

Actual behaviour

• there probably is an underlying issue for this. the second stage problem started around one month ago. with v 3.16.0.
• the underlying issue is the inability to display the conflict dialogues for files, so i cannot chose what to do about my file conflicts. probably MiUI or dark system theme related?
• starting with v3.16.0, the app started showing me a notification for conflicted files every few seconds, ranging from 1000 to 9000 per day for this app alone.

Environment data

Android version: 10

Device model: Xiaomi Mi9

Stock or customized system:

Nextcloud app version: 3.16.0

Nextcloud server version: 20.0.8

Reverse proxy: nginx

Logs

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Nextcloud log (data/nextcloud.log)

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[tobiasKaminsky]

* the underlying issue is the inability to display the conflict dialogues for files

What does happen there?

Can you provide us additional infos via logcat? https://github.com/nextcloud/android/blob/master/README.md#getting-debug-info-via-logcat

[vKnmnn]

i think it’s the same stuff happening as in #7000 . sadly (or less so) i resolved my conflicts now, so i'm not able to provide a logcat.

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[ffflorian]

I am experiencing the same problem. Clicking on the notification opens the nextCloud app but not the duplicate file dialog.

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[ffflorian]

This issue is not fixed. Please reopen.

[bllngr]

I keep having the same issue on (at least) 3.20. I noticed that if I try to open one of the notifications, a toast message "Error creating conflict dialog" appears.

@tobiasKaminsky, since the issue has been confirmed by multiple people, could you tell the bot to not close it? I will try to get a logcat log the next time it appears. But I suspect it might have something to do with the server not being accessible due to network issues or so.

[tobiasKaminsky]

Working steps to reproduce are really needed here. 🤞🤞🤞 that you can narrow them down

[bllngr]

@tobiasKaminsky, I don't know whether it's reproducible everywhere, but for me it always happens in this scenario:

1. Make sure auto upload is enabled for photos and screenshots
2. Take a photo or screenshot
3. Immediately edit the photo/screenshot (crop it, apply filters or so). On my device, I can do that from the notification.
4. Save the edited picture.
5. Observe a conflict notification being generated, and a second, third, fourth ... around every three to six minutes.

Edit: I've also extracted a logcat after a reboot, with around five or six messages being created within 80 minutes: nextcloud-android#8591-logcat-output.txt

[bllngr]

@tobiasKaminsky have you been able to narrow it down? The NC app is is still generating masses of notifications everytime I edit a freshly taken picture or screenshot. Is there anything else you need?

[tobiasKaminsky]

Can you show us your auto upload settings? I assume that you do not have "overwrite" enabled as conflict resolution?

[bllngr]

Yes, "Ask me every time" is selected for conflict resolution.