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Description
Due to the various logout bugs, there is a gap between the Camera Roll and what's on the server. So my idea was to use the "Upload full camera roll" setting to get a consistent state again.
There I noticed, that it will really upload all files again, even though many already exist on the server. This is noticeable especially with Videos that will be fully uploaded and replace the existing files.
My camera roll contains 30.000 pictures and videos by now, so it's literally taken days to make progress.
It would be really nice, if the app would just skip files, where the metadata matches what it currently tries to upload. It will be still a lot of requests to the server then, but only minimal data transfer and thus much faster progress
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the iOS app's full-camera-roll upload flow and how it compares local media metadata with server files. Done means uploads skip files whose metadata already matches, while still uploading missing or changed items and avoiding full replacement transfers.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- swift
- Domain
- mobile-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100