Set default value for auto-upload = yes

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Feature request

Suddenly the auto-upload stopped.

Then i saw that i had to activate it again.

Later, when i wanted to check, if my photos from today got uploaded, with horror i saw it uploading my full photo history and creating duplicates.

As other users could run into this trap, i urge you to turn on „ Back up new photos/videos.only“ by default.

As an existing user, i want „ Back up new photos/videos.only“ to be turned on, so that i don’t have the app to create mass duplicates of my photos, when i am forced to tun on, what was on ever since (and it did never create duplicates when i had to turn it on again for some reason in the past).

As an existing user, i want „ Back up new photos/videos.only“ to manually turn off, in the rare and exceptional case when i would really have a complete historical upload to my nextcloud instance.

Right now it is geared to the exceptional case of full backup for existing users with the drawback to have to delete (manually) all the duplicates created (for me i meant 4 years of photographs volumes). Luckily i spotted it rather early. Else it would have been thousands (!) of duplicates.

Start by locating the auto-upload setting and the “Back up new photos/videos only” option in the iOS app. Check how their defaults are applied for existing users and verify that the option is enabled by default, remains manually switchable, and does not trigger unintended duplicate uploads.