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I can understand that. How would it be if, instead of the meaningless error message "Failed" there would be a short keyword list of possible errors and also a link...

There are more people who have this problem: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Mobile_app#App_broken

Would there perhaps be a way to check whether the user is successfully logged in before each upload?

@ShashwatKedia Yes, thank you. I assume this source code refers to the initial login? I am interested in checking the current validity of the login before each individual upload process....

@shashankiitbhu Okay, but then I don't understand why the uploader only receives the unspecific message "Upload error" at the very end of the upload process?

@shashankiitbhu The problem is that the user assumes that the app does not work. I (and others: Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Mobile_app#App_broken) only realized after weeks(!) that the upload error was related to...

@shashankiitbhu Yes, that's exactly the problem: "I think the issue here is that the password is changed from the web frontend when you are already Logged-In on the app and...

@whym thank you, that's exactly how it was for me and it took me weeks to recognize the connection.

@whym, @shashankiitbhu Captcha: I noticed something else: in the following scenario, the app cannot accept a correct password: - The app requires a new password to be entered due to...

Just as an aside: I noticed afterwards that the current version of the app behaves "quite normally" until the category is queried: (I first noticed that something was "weird" because...