[RQ-1116]: Failed to initialize FsManage : Could not load config

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Ticket: https://browserstack.atlassian.net/browse/RQ-1116

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved handling of configuration file read failures: when the config file is missing the app logs the situation and continues using sensible defaults instead of aborting. Other file read errors still surface as errors. Malformed JSON in config continues to be reported as a parsing error.

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Walkthrough

The FsManager.parseConfig() method in fs-manager.ts was modified to handle configuration loading failures more gracefully. Previously, when config loading failed, the method would throw an error. Now it logs a message and returns a default Config object with version: WORKSPACE_CONFIG_FILE_VERSION and exclude: []. JSON parsing failures still throw as before. The change affects only the file-read error path while preserving the existing downstream parsing logic.

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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 2 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 inconclusive)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Title check	❓ Inconclusive	The title references a specific issue (RQ-1116) and error condition, but doesn't clearly summarize the main change—which is handling 'file not found' errors gracefully rather than throwing.	Consider a title like '[RQ-1116]: Handle missing config file gracefully in FsManager' that clearly describes the main behavior change.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.

Inline comments:
In `@src/renderer/actions/local-sync/fs-manager.ts`:
- Around line 138-147: The current logic in the load path unconditionally falls
back to the default Config when rawConfig.type === "error", which hides
non-missing-file errors; change the check in the block that currently returns
the defaultConfig (referencing rawConfig, CONFIG_FILE, Config, Static<typeof
Config>, WORKSPACE_CONFIG_FILE_VERSION) so it only returns the default when the
underlying error indicates the file is missing (e.g. rawConfig.error.code ===
'ENOENT'); for any other error rethrow the error (or propagate it) instead of
returning the default so permission/I/O issues are not silently ignored.

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• src/renderer/actions/local-sync/fs-manager.ts