"Deleted remote items" looks scary. Clarify its meaning?

[WofWca]

See related posts:

• Deleted remote items
• What was remotely deleted during sync? · Issue #9690 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub

Basically initially users are scared "wait, why are we deleting something, I didn't delete this much stuff", and then they just stop paying attention to this once they realize this happens all the time.

What's happening, IMU, is that the deleted items are old versions of notes most of the time.

I think there must be a distinction between those in the UI. That is, Joplin should say something along the lines "Deleted old note versions: 12; Deleted noted: 3".
Perhaps this should also apply to "Created" items.

[personalizedrefriger]

I'm linking two related support requests:

• Newly synced mobile device deleting all notes
• Joplin shows notice that notes are deleted

Edit: Also possibly Unexplained Deleted Files.

[personalizedrefriger]

Thank you for the feature request!

I've started working on this locally. This post summarizes what's been done so far and changes that still need to be made.

@WofWca

That is, Joplin should say something along the lines "Deleted old note versions: 12; Deleted noted: 3".

With the work-in-progress implementation, a shorter but possibly harder-to-understand message is shown. For example,

Above, old note versions are ref

On mobile, a shorter message currently means that more space is available for the notebook list — a long message currently decreases the space available for other items in the sidebar. To address this, it may make sense to either:

• Use a status message that isn't long when a large number of different item types have been changed.
• Truncate the full status message, if long, and link to a more detailed sync status page.
  • For example,
    
    
• Allow expanding/collapsing the sync status section (related feature request).

Update: I'm linking the relevant pull request:

Desktop,Mobile,Cli: Include types of synced items in the sync status message

[t0dd]

There is A LOT that happens during the sync process that leaves folks scratching their heads. One thing that is missing is a progress bar for the whole process. Or some indicator stating that 1225/1396 items doesn't mean you a hundred and change items away from completing the sync. For example.

[muzak]

Could a progress bar or estimated time indicator also improve the Extra Markdown editor settings plugin's "show sync indicator" option, as shown here? Mobile: Display sync status while in edit view - #21 by personalizedrefriger