Not sure what +389 KB in auto upload page means

[bilogic]

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What does this screenshot mean? Why doesn't nextcloud android app want to upload the +389 KB folder?

Describe the solution you'd like
Remove the folder and write Empty

If the app has uploaded all files (images, documents and everything else), why still show a folder saying +389 KB? Whatever shown should be relatively self explanatory with regards to the page, in this case Auto upload. My most direct interpretation is there are +389 KB worth of data in a folder that was not uploaded.... and the question is why? bug?

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[joshtrichards]

It's placeholder. I believe it just gets displayed in some situations until things are fully loaded:

android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml

Lines 448 to 452 in 0d1bdc6

	<string name="placeholder_sentence">This is a placeholder</string>
	<string name="placeholder_filename">placeholder.txt</string>
	<string name="placeholder_fileSize">389 KB</string>
	<string name="placeholder_timestamp">2012/05/18 12:23 PM</string>
	<string name="placeholder_media_time">12:23:45</string>

It may be possible to make it clearer. Some of the others are more obvious.

I have it pop up on one (only one; not sure why) of my many listed folders. It goes away after scrolling down than back up. So there may be some room for optimization as well (i.e. something else may be going on in some cases that keeps the placeholder active for longer than intended).

[bilogic]

This placeholder feature has never ever gone away for an empty folder, be it production, dev or QA and an extremely misleading one I might add. This is a display (not input), thus placeholders should indicate things are still loading and not present some fake value, i.e. +389 KB

My folders are all empty as I selected the delete option, so this placeholder should have disappeared, not stayed on. I consider this feature broken.

A possible fix is

1. Placeholder should say Loading... or Scanning... or just ... if animation is not possible
2. If folder is empty, placeholder should be replaced with No files here, like other parts of the Android app
3. If folder is not empty, then placeholder is replaced by thumbnails of the files in it

nextcloud-bug.mp4

[alperozturk96]

Thank you for the report. Great findings. Suggestion make sense to me as well.

@tobiasKaminsky What do you think?