Storage settings bug when updating to 1.0.0-rc.49 (windows)

Bug Reports
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Observed behavior

After updating to 1.0.0-rc.49, storage settings of all drives changed to “Manual Selection”"

Expected behavior

storage settings should not change unless user changes it.

Steps required to reproduce

  1. updating to 1.0.0-rc.49
  2. open aspect
  3. a pop-up screen appears, informing that the storage needs to be updated
  4. click “update”
  5. after some time, an error message appears informing that storage is limited for the storage device

Operating system/Hardware used

Windows 11
1.0.0-rc.49

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This has been a one-off change, where the default mode was changed from “all photos” to “manual selection” (this is actually the reason for the catalog format update in 1.0.0-rc.49). Setting it back to “all photos” explicitly should work as expected, though.

The background for this change was that the previous default of “all photos” makes is much more error prone to add new external disks or NAS folders to the library. With “all photos” on by default that would mean that all files from the external disk would immediately get copied over to the main library instance after the initial clone, then likely leading to a full system disk. With “manual selection” you’d instead get a warning about insufficient synchronization settings at some point, giving you the chance to make an explicit decision.

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Thanks Soenke for the explenation. I will try to revert to manual selection then.
I have found some description on how it works here Splitting a library over multiple hard disks - Bildhuus Aspect

Do you think that syncing the NAS folders as an archive by using restrict to date range - last week could also help?