Filtering based on labels stopped working since 1.8.9

[verebes1]

I noticed a weird behaviour I had Trailer fully set up and was happily tracking all the relevant PRs excluding certain labels like do not merge or excluding dependabot PRs
However with the recent updates to 1.8.10 and then to 1.8.11
These stopped working. I tried removing the label and adding it again and I can see some repos hiding but not all of them for some reason despite having the do not merge label attached to them.

Another issue that I was having in addition to filtering that I do not get the updates on the PRs like I used to eg:
A PR has been approved still shows as nothing happened on it for days. Seems like Trailer stopped updating. I tried reloading all the data and that did not solve the issue.

Any ideas how to work on this? Would I need to set everything up from scratch again?

Reverting to version 1.8.9 seems to fixed the issues.

[verebes1]

Update on the above issue. I noticed that this issue is not showing on my other mac (Apple Silicon). So I believe this has somehow got corrupt on my main mac (Intel based). I tried reloading all the data and it helps up until I disable wifi and re-enable it again or up until the restart of the mac.

Is there a way to fully uninstall everything to set it up from scratch again? I tried removing everything from the ~/Library/Preferences
That I could find that related to trailer and then reimporting the settings file that was previously exported but that also brings back the issue.
Is it possible that the settings file has something inside that is causing the issue to reoccur or can it be specific to the intel macs?

[ptsochantaris]

Hi and sorry for the very slow reply. If you want to completely zap Trailer, the best way is to remove the app, the prefs file - like you mention - and also the data directory ~/Library/Application\ Support/com.housetrip.Trailer. That said, I find it interesting that the specific instance breaks only if you disable your WiFi - it sounds like perhaps some error handling is breaking when a sync fails. Can you give me a way to try and reproduce the issue?

[verebes1]

Unfortunately I have another mac which is on Apple Silicon and I cannot reproduce the same issue 🤷
but if I find a way then I will let you know.

[verebes1]

One thing that is interesting though if I reinstall the app after fully nuking everything and reimport the settings that were working on the mac with AppleSilicon. It fails to show the approval state. The only solution so far that I found is to switch to the v4 API. I think the issue might be somewhere in the settings import phase. I will report back if the Wifi issue happens again. If so I might have to go about and set everything up manually again.

[verebes1]

I have a quick question on resetting. I removed all the settings and reinstalled trailer after a mac reboot. Despite the fact that I was adding a new api token and setting it up from scratch it still remembered my filters from the previous install and also knew where my settings export was.
Is there another file location that Trailer uses to load config on the filesystem?

[ptsochantaris]

Hi @verebes1 - macOS sandboxing means that preferences tend to be spread out all over the filesystem. One app (I'm not affiliated with them, but definitely worth investigating) is AppCleaner. Using it on Trailer will give the following paths:

So ideally you'd want to nuke all of those (even the one that for some reason above isn't automatically ticked)

Hope this helps!