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Cambridge Cognitive and Psychiatric Test Kit (CamCOPS)

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The forgotten password workflow can end up going round in circles #346

Closed martinburchell closed 5 months ago

martinburchell commented 5 months ago

Seen by the CPFT Adult Eating Disorders Service and by me occasionally on Windows and possible Linux. You can get stuck in a loop if:

you forget your password on the client.
CamCOPS tries to delete the SQLite databases.
for some reason the databases can't be deleted.

It's not clear when this happens (possibly permissions or something else has a lock on the file?) but we can at least:

detect when the deletion fails.
report the error to the user.
prompt the user to delete the databases manually.
exit the application.