I just got this message from BookPlayer:
"The database is corrupted and no backup is available. The library will need to be reset and rebuilt from your audio files."
As a developer, I get it. Unexpected I/O errors happen. But what is this even saying?
Why is there no backup? I back up my phone daily, so there should be a backup.
If there's no backup in the format the app expects, how do I make sure that isn't ever the case in the future? No idea; it doesn't say.
Meanwhile, how will my library be rebuilt. Automatically, or will I need to manually reimport everything? What information have I lost?
And finally, it's a good job I didn't press the big reset button underneath this message because everything is working fine after restarting the app. Meaning that this big scary error about data loss, with a button encouraging me to cause more data loss, was a complete lie.
Please, software people, do better. In this case, better would've been a recommendation to try restarting the app first. That's it.
James Scholes
@jscholes@dragonscave.space
