[Enhancement]: Display user friendly error for connection issues

[kadisonm]

What happened?

I was syncing on mobile and it was taking a long time. It then showed this:

Not sure if this means anything.

What OS are you using?

Android

What remote cloud services are you using?

OneDrive for personal

Version of the plugin

0.4.25

Version of Obsidian

1.4.16

Using password or not

• [X] Yes.

Ensure no sensitive information

• [X] I ensure that no sensitive information is submitted in the issue.

[sboesen]

Hmm, I suspect this is either 1) a large file timing out or 2) poor network connection. The large file could be a metadata file if it has grown, remotely save had some reports about that. Does this keep happening?

[kadisonm]

Stopped right after but was just wondering if it should be something to concern about. Might help for the general user to just display a notice saying to check their internet connection or saying a file timed out. Since I think these are generally things the user can only really fix.

The large file could be a metadata file

Not sure.

[sboesen]

Can you share the error on the console (expanding the object)? Need to modify the exception handling code (main.ts:301 ish) to look for that error type in particular.

[kadisonm]

I'm not entirely sure I can reproduce because it stopped happening right after I refreshed the app.

[sboesen]

Sounds good, I'll close this one for now but if you can trigger it again and post the log (expanding the object logged) I can try to wrap it and provide a better error message. For now I think it's not a big deal

[kadisonm]

Hi is this related? I'm getting this after moving two files and renaming them.

Restarting seems to fix it.

I tried to recreate by moving a file to a new folder and renaming it. I couldn't get the error again on purpose but I did get it once for an unknown reason.

Here is what I found:

• The file's old name and new name both appear in the log. Even on syncs after it still appears.
• Every consequent sync is trying to sync these files, and the more I try testing on the larger the sync is every time.
• I think it is syncing twice? It logs getJson and then prints 'password is blank? false remote has metadata? false'. It then logs the same getJson's again and reprints the remote has metadata message.
• Additionally during this, the status bar says 'Preparing...' until both password is blank messages have printed. Then it switches to 'Synced less than a minute ago' for a bit until it shows the sync() filling up and finishing.
• Restarting Obsidian doesn't fix it and it is still trying to sync these files every time. (it does fix the error I got ealier though)

[kadisonm]

Please feel free to move this to a seperate issue if it is unrelated.

[sboesen]

Looks separate! Will move it