Invalid Synchronization behavior

[Pilat66]

Operating system

Linux

Joplin version

3.0.15

Desktop version info

Joplin 3.0.15 (prod , linux)

Current behaviour

1. Start Joplin
2. Synchronization started
3. Press "Cancel" button
4. Synchronization dont stop, removing all elements continues

Expected behaviour

1. Start Joplin
2. Synchronization started
3. Press "Cancel" button
4. Synchronization STOP, deletion of all elements is cancelled or at least synchronization is stopped

Logs

Deleted remote items: 1077.
Completed: 2025-01-05 01:32 (3894s)
Last error: Sync target is locked - aborting API call

[mrjo118]

Unfortunately when cancelling the sync, it can only be interrupted at certain stages as far as I'm aware, so it is normal for cancelling to continue some actions before it stops.

However, you were likely prompted to cancel the sync due to seeing many deletions, which is likely due to note history cleaning now working correctly in newer versions of Joplin (it did not work correctly for a long time). See #11488 for more information regarding this.

On Joplin desktop, go to Tools > Export deletion log. Here you can confirm what items were deleted in your sync yesterday, if they were in fact majority or entirely revisions. There is an equivalent log which can be viewed on the mobile app as well