nextcloud / nextcloud/android

Client is unaware of File Access Control restrictions, and how to handle them

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bug feature: transfers hotspot: auth failure mgmt stable-3.23
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Description

### ⚠️ Before posting ⚠️

- [X] This is a **bug**, not a question or an enhancement.
- [X] I've [searched for similar issues](https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues) and didn't find a duplicate.
- [X] I've written a clear and descriptive title for this issue, not just "Bug" or "Crash".
- [X] I agree to follow Nextcloud's [Code of Conduct](https://nextcloud.com/contribute/code-of-conduct/).

### Steps to reproduce

1. Block some kind of file through the File Access Control app
2. Keep a folder synced that contains this kind of file
3. Check notifications after a while
4. You'll get endless notifications of "Upload Failed"

### Expected behaviour

This is bad/lazy behavior. The app should NOT continuously warn the user about an admin restriction.

* The user may not be able to do anything about it;
* The user may be needing to sync that folder anyway;
* The blocked file may be crucial and impossible to delete;

The app should discreetly warn the user about this, either with a single notification once, or in the Uploads folder.

Or better yet, **not warn the user altogether**.

It's an admin restriction, the user can't do anything about it - or the user is admin, in which case, he knows about it already.

### Actual behaviour

Having a file restriction becomes a severe annoyance for the innocent user.

Truth be told, the feeling here is that **the Sync app is not even aware** that such a thing as File Access Control exists.

A [seemingly identical issue](https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues/5431) exists with the Desktop client.
Although, at least, the Desktop client can be told to _ignore_ the file.

### Android version

10

### Device brand and model

Ulefone 9

### Stock or custom OS?

Stock

### Nextcloud android app version

3.23.1

### Nextcloud server version

25.0.3

### Using a reverse proxy?

No

### Android logs

No Android app logs are available at the location indicated.

### Server error logs

```bash
No relevant Server error logs.
```

### Additional information

_No response_

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