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Description
Describe the bug
There is a setting (under Connection) labelled "Repeat failed networking tasks". Bizarrely, the number of retries cannot be set to greater than 20.
Who is this limit supposed to be helpful to?! If a user wants automatic reconnect attempts, they want automatic reconnect attempts; not 20 of them, an unlimited number of them.
The default should be infinite retries.
The current "Number of retries" spinner should be replaced by a checkbox with text "Limit number of retry attempts to", followed by a spinner which is greyed out until the checkbox is checked (defaulting to unchecked).
To Reproduce
- Go to Preferences->Connection
- Try to increase the number of retry attempts to 21.
Expected behavior
See above
Desktop (please complete the following information):
Any
Additional context
Some people live in remote areas with patchy internet connections that may be down for many hours (or even days). They don't want to find out that their data was never backed up because CyberDuck stopped trying to back it up after 200 seconds.
As a general rule of user-facing software development, don't limit functionality because you assume that you know what is best for the user. You don't!