[Bug]: Impossible to prevent deleted files from being deleted

[sboesen]

What happened?

From #60 / @Engineer-Extreme:

Possible Issue 3:
I tried to circumvent Possible Issue 1 by pasting the local vault with correct creation and modification times to OneDrive manually (which uploads correct modification times on the remote), but then when I tried to Remotely Sync, it somehow assumed that all the files were deleted in the cloud and hence deleted my entire local vault. I did a DB reset before testing every issue I identified above.

Possible Issue 4:
Which brings me to another issue regarding the database which stores metadata. Because my entire local vault was deleted, and that was the state of Remotely Sync even after multiple retries, I decided to reinstall the plugin, authenticate from scratch so that it would at least not keep that delete state for every file. I also deleted the remote "Apps/Remotely Secure" folder on OneDrive. But unfortunately, I don't know how but the "deletion state" still exists and Remotely Sync still assumes the files were all deleted in local. And this after reinstalling in the same vault without restoring those deleted files. Somehow Remotely Sync still has the listing of all of the original files even though there is nothing in the vault and I reset Remotely Sync. It should start with an empty file list with no history from before the reinstall, but it has the history of all of the files in the vault which actually don't exist anymore!

What OS are you using?

Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS (iPhone, iPad), Android

What remote cloud services are you using?

S3, OneDrive for personal, Dropbox, webdav

Version of the plugin

No response

Version of Obsidian

No response

Using password or not

• Yes.

Ensure no sensitive information

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

[sboesen]

Deletion tracking is not in a great state right now. Initial thoughts are a workaround to clear both local & remote deletion history with a button & tons of warnings.

[sboesen]

Added in #58. Please give this a try - will open a new feature request for improving deleted items tracking (#75)

[kadisonm]

When I uninstall and reinstall I find the local DB isn't deleted. Is this intended?

[sboesen]

🤔 Not sure. I assumed it was stored in the plugin folder but maybe not? Haven't looked into the local db much. Probably worth adding a new issue for this, sounds like a problem