PR of individual commits to fix small issues.

[JoeZiminski]

This PR makes many small fixes to issues that have come up over time. It should be considered as a holding PR for many separate individual issues, which can be considered separately. This should be normal merged (not squash merged) and can be reveiwed by commit. All changes are linked to existing issues:

• add python 3.11 support: e951b84 Add support for Python v3.11 #285
• 02deb9f Review error handling #287
• Validate all special characters not just spaces e31b577 Validate all special characters not just spaces. #290
• Remove the 'file tree' feature that used rich file tree and printing to console because a) it was slow b) it was hard to test c) we have this better in the TUI 3ffc132 Remove file-tree from API #312
• Quick commit to add a CLI shortcut to access the TUI, also tidy up pyproject file, also tidy up erroneously commented code 762424a 1c0feba
• Add tests for the functionality to bypass validation when creating folders c7f11f3 Need to test persistent settings tui (in tui tests) #302
• Raise error if project already exists when using 'make config file' (should use 'update config file' instead) 9fa8747 Don't allow 'make config file' if project already exists #316
• Fixup to CLI tests where Popen rather rthan run was used to make CLI calls, inadvertantly creating and not closing many processes! d1bc9cc
• Fix where TUI logging was not updating when changing tab, meaning most recent actions (e.g. making some folders) did not show the logs. 70873ca 'Most recent' logs does not refresh  #315
• Limit the number of systems calls made in the project becuase these are much slower than realised (creating the process is slow). Also streamline the rclone config setup which was very confusing e1079eb
• The last 4 commits are CI-related (extending to M1, updating versions, add dependabot).

@niksirbi how did things go in the end with the NIU test action, can I help with anything? I took the lazy way and revereted back to not using for now :'D BTW apologies I did set you as rewiere previously and it was not ready to review - it is now.

[niksirbi]

Looks good @JoeZiminski ! I reviewed this by commit, as suggested

@niksirbi how did things go in the end with the NIU test action, can I help with anything? I took the lazy way and revereted back to not using for now :'D

We kinda found a functional workaround for movement which allows us to keep using the NIU test action as is.

Basically what we do is the following:

• in the workflow we setup conda before we call the NIU test action.
• In pyproject.toml we configure tox-conda to install pytables in the test environment (for datashuttle that would be rclone).

The problem was that tox-conda could not find the conda executable on some OSes (macos-14 and windows), but setting up and activating conda before the tests seems to have taken care of that.

Maybe worth a try for datashuttle as well?

[JoeZiminski]

Thanks @niksirbi! These are complete in the following two commits (next PR):

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