Items deleted from the history cannot be reimported

[blackforestboi]

When items are deleted from the history list, you can't reimport them.

This is because every imported/visited item gets stored into the local storage under: localStorage['list_downloaded_urls']

When an import takes place, every URL that is in the history is checked if in that file. If yes, it doesnt get imported.

2. Options to solve this:

1. We have to update the delete process so that the URL is removed from list_downloaded_urls
2. Because people might not want to import this by accident again, we just give the notice that these pages have to be proactively revisited and won't ever be importable again.

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[NikolayOG]

Hi, oliver I would like to fix this problem. I am going to implement the second option that you suggested so when user wants to delete URL message will be displayed with option whether he/she wants to delete it or not.

[blackforestboi]

Hello Nikolay!

Thanks for your kind offer to help us out! Very much appreciated!

I don't want you to waste your valuable time. We are currently refactoring the code, so there is no work happening in this repo. We are in the process to work on the refactor in another project, the WebMemex.

But if you are still up to help us out, you can check out the other repo and raise your hand for one of the newcomer issues: https://github.com/WebMemex/webmemex-extension/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Anewcomer-task

Thanks a lot and happy hacking! May I ask how you stumbled about our project?

Best, Oliver