Auto upload: Choosing a different remote folder before enabling auto upload for a local folder

[tristanbay]

In the auto upload settings, where you can select specific folders to enable for photo and/or video uploading, it lets you change the remote folder from the default InstantUpload, but you can't change this while the corresponding local folder is disabled. Because the app (from my observations) can't switch where it's uploading photos during the upload job, it has to start by uploading the initial files to InstantUpload, and then the switch to the chosen remote folder takes effect once that initial job is finished, meaning for every new folder you enable auto uploads for, you have to move the initial files out of InstantUpload manually or force stop the app in settings and/or turn off the connection to the server to force the app to stop the task (since, again from my own obervations, re-disabling auto upload for the folder doesn't seem to take effect until the current tasks are done; see issue #17555). Allowing the user to change auto upload settings for a local folder while it's disabled would (at least in a way) solve the issue.

This is related to issue #16550.

[daniele-verducci]

Hey @tristanbay , thanks for the report.
I tried to reproduce the issue, but I didn't succeed. AFAIK, the settings are applied the moment the settings popup is closed, so the upload folder can be changed without the files ever being uploaded to the default one.

I recorded a video because my workflow may be different from yours:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/41ce2b1d-7e6a-4c95-b0b4-0ce67a6b8506

In case you can still reproduce the issue, can you detail your workflow step by step? A video can also be useful!
Thank you!