How to query for all changed records including deleted status

I would like to have a counter to know how many items we need to sync to the backend? And i would like to use the enhance options with withObservables like so

const uploadButtonObservable = withObservables<
  UploadButtonPropsIn,
  UploadButtonPropsOut
>([], () => {
  const collection = database.collections.get(tableName);
  return {
    changedCount: collection
      .query(Q.where('_status', Q.notEq('synced')))
      .observeCount(),
  };
});

The problem is that by default the query is extend to exclude _status = ‘deleted’

So How should I tackle this?

[radex]

you can use https://github.com/Nozbe/WatermelonDB/blob/master/src/Database/index.js#L178 to get a signal whenever there’s a change in the DB, upon which you can refetch the value

[ruben4mobile]

If there was a way to get the data without this risk I would use it. Problem is that there are possibly multiple projects to sync separately explaining the need for the where clause. I could possibly start a new database per project and drop some raw queries, but not all