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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon vrtmrz

No sync until verbose logging enabled after URI changed.

Open CupricReki opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

Reproducing procedure

  1. Set sync settings by preset 'Disable all automatic'
  2. Change URI
  3. Set Sync Settings by preset 'LiveSync' - No changes are synced
  4. Enable 'Verbose Logging' - Changes immediately sync

Other information, insights and intuition.

I appreciate the effort that went into this plugin but the setup is really difficult and buggy. After about 6 hours of trial and error, multiple clean wipes, I finally have all my devices syncing.

Again though. I thoroughly appreciate your work.

CupricReki avatar Jan 14 '24 22:01 CupricReki

Sorry for being very late! In these cases, Obsidian command Reload app without saving will help us! Please try if you are troubled next time! I will check the reflection of the settings.

really difficult

Yes, I am always wondering how can we improve this. As you mentioned, CouchDB is a bit minor database. I refined the setup guide and utilities recently. I hope that the new guide will help you in the next time.

vrtmrz avatar Feb 15 '24 05:02 vrtmrz

Yes, I could see how Reload app without saving may have worked in my situation. What about adding a notification when you close the setting when changes have been made which require a restart?

CupricReki avatar Feb 17 '24 02:02 CupricReki

Difficulty of setup I believe can be attributed to a GUI designed for power users. Most users just want sync to work with minimal effort and good defaults.

Present only necessary options by default and hide advanced options behind an advanced options checkbox.

For example:

Remote Database Configuration

Confidentiality

  • End to End encryption by default. Generate the encryption passphrase on initial setup.
  • Always path obfuscate or never path obfuscate.
  • Remove Use dynamic iteration count. If this is something the user benefits from, just enable it. If not, remove it

CupricReki avatar Feb 17 '24 02:02 CupricReki

Thank you for your advice! Perhaps the biggest problem is that Setup Wizard is buried and not well known. When we start the Setup Wizard, we will see items only we must configure.

At v0.22.6, the Setup Wizard is refined. Brand new installed Self-hosted LiveSync prompts the dialogue to guide setup. We can choose the setup method -- Using Setup URI or starting Minimal setup (Which has been refined from the Setup wizard).

And, the documents are also refined. Would you mind check the latest version and documents?

vrtmrz avatar Feb 20 '24 05:02 vrtmrz