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The help page for 'automatic upgrades' does not tell one how to re-enable them

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Description

What happened

I saw this:

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So I clicked the help button in order to see why how to re-enable automatic upgrades. The resulting webpage did not disclose that information. Surely it should do.

(It took me a while to locate - or, given that I had disabled the setting myself, some time ago - re-locate the information. In order to help others, let me note the procedure here. Syncthing GUI -> Actions -> Advanced Configuration ->Auto upgrade interval (hours) -> set to something other than zero. And there does turn out to be a relevant help page.)

What I expected to happen

I expected to see a help page that discloses how to enable and disable automatic updates.

Version Information
Syncthing Version: 1.23.7

The OS of the computer at issue

Windows 10 Pro - 22H2 (2009: 19045)

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Research direction

Open the help page reached from the automatic-upgrades setting and compare it with the configuration reference at docs.syncthing.net/v1.23.6/users/config#config-option-options.autoupgradeintervalh. Update the relevant documentation so it explains both disabling and re-enabling automatic upgrades via Auto upgrade interval (hours), then verify the help link presents that procedure.

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Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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