Clearing app data loses local tasks and resurrects archived cloud tasks

[charlesvien]

Problem

Clearing application data permanently loses all local tasks, including archived ones, with no way to recover them. Separately, after reinstalling and clearing data again, cloud tasks that were stopped and archived weeks or months ago reappear instead of staying stopped and archived. Reported by Richard.

Expected behavior

• Local tasks, including archived ones, should survive or be recoverable rather than being silently destroyed when application data is cleared.
• Cloud tasks that were previously stopped and archived should keep that state after a data clear or reinstall, not resync as active and unarchived.

Steps to reproduce

1. Clear application data (originally done to work around other buggy behavior).
2. Observe that all local tasks, including archived ones, are gone.
3. Delete and reinstall the app, then clear application data again.
4. Observe that cloud tasks that were stopped and archived weeks or months ago reappear.

Possibly related: #2745 (archived tasks leaking across accounts after account switch).

[salihudickson]

The behavior that causes all the tasks to be deleted seems to be intentional, and not a bug or side-effect. From what I can tell, it wouldn't really be feasible to clear the worktrees and workspaces while preserving the tasks.

Are you suggesting redesigning the functionality to just reset the app config and local storage.

An alternate, and I think better option, would be to have a separate option of deleting the tasks from resetting the app config and clearing the local storage. This will give the user the option of a non-destructive reset, and an explicit destructive one.

What do you think?