Removal of pictures when webdav server is offline

[b3nsk0]

Hi, it seems that if the webdav server is offline, all local pictures were removed. Is it possible to change this behavior so that pictures were only synchronized (removed/changed) when the webdav server is online?

[avanc]

Hm, photOS should check if webdav is mounted before initiating the sync: https://github.com/avanc/photOS/blob/66e42b553b47b78b6254827ae251c1df50ace44f/package/photoframe/photoframe.sh#L85-L95

So I'm not quite sure what happens in your case. Can you give me some additional information to investigate further? Was the server not reachable or down?

[b3nsk0]

of course. I'm hosting the server on my synology nas and when the server is down, all synced pictures were removed, when I turn the server on the synchronization starts and after downloading everything is normal again.

[avanc]

Thanks, I could reproduce the problem. I'm still investigating...

[avanc]

mount.davfs: connection timed out two times;
trying one last time
mount.davfs: server temporarily unreachable;
mounting anyway

Why the hell is davfs "mounting anyway" if the server is unreachable?

Created a ticket: http://savannah.nongnu.org/support/index.php?110576

[cs301cs301]

What's about rclone, maybe a better way?

[michkrom]

Possibly add check of the mount location for any files?

[avanc]

This would mean that you cannot wipe all images remotely. But I agree the impact is smaller than the current situation.