[Bug]: confilct handling in web UI is fundamentally broken #57931
Description
⚠️ This issue respects the following points: ⚠️
- This is a bug, not a question or a configuration/webserver/proxy issue.
- This issue is not already reported on Github OR Nextcloud Community Forum (I've searched it).
- Nextcloud Server is up to date. See Maintenance and Release Schedule for supported versions.
- I agree to follow Nextcloud's Code of Conduct.
Bug description
in my case the problem especially arises in combination of mobile app auto-upload and manual file sorting into different folders. if for some reason I don't move but copy the files initially and later try to move same file into final destination there is no way to resolve file conflicts using the conflict dialogue.
There are multiple design flaws in this dialogue
- if the user copies/moves multiple files each files is handled on it's own, there is no way to apply an action to each file from the selection, there is also no way to completely stop the operation - the user must repeat the selection for every file in the queue
- in case file names are longer the operation overlay (moving file xyz to folder) is shown on top of "continue" button
Steps to reproduce
- create 2 folders with identical content, in my case two copies of pre-defined "Photos" folder
- choose multiple files in folder "copy of photos 2"
- and choose move to "copy of photos 1"
observe the issue
- the dialogue doesn't provide details for the "new" file version you are trying to move (but this is know as files exist on the server already)
- even if details would exist important information is missing like creation and modification time, size and ideally hash to see if the file is identical
- long destination name overlays buttons (workaround to reduse scaling in the browser with ctrl+-)
- "select all existing files" is non-functional as this dialogue repeats for all chosen files as each operation seems to handle only one file at time
- "select all new files" is non-functional as well
- checkbox "select all new/existing files" is exactly the same as select specific file close to the filename
- select existing file" is broken as it leaves the file you are trying to copy in the original folder (same as "skip this file") but without any clarification so the user is surprized later to find the files he moved to another place to remain in the original location
Expected behavior
- file conflict dialog must allow user to decide which file to keep and should expose as many metadata as possible: filename, creation and modification time, checksum, format specific metadata headers like EXIF
- operations on multiple files should allow to chose specific action (overwrite/keep destination) for all files in the queue
- it should be possible to stop the queue completely
- multi-file operation should allow to see details of all files affected at once (table view) and only list conflicting files continuing processing on files without issues asyncronously
Nextcloud Server version
32
Operating system
Debian/Ubuntu
PHP engine version
PHP 8.3
Web server
Apache (supported)
Database engine version
PostgreSQL
Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install?
Upgraded to a MAJOR version (ex. 31 to 32)
Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?
None
What user-backends are you using?
- Default user-backend (database)
- LDAP/ Active Directory
- SSO - SAML
- Other
Configuration report
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Additional info
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