jodrmx reported on v3.44.0 (Pi Lite, Docker compose): admin-UI event
delete removes the DB row but leaves `storage/events/active/<event>/`
intact on disk.
Root cause: `deleteEventCascade` in adminEvents.js read
`event.folder_path` and gated the `fs.rm` on it. That column is NEVER
WRITTEN anywhere in the codebase — grep confirms two reads in this one
function, zero writes elsewhere. So `event.folder_path` was always
undefined, `if (event.folder_path)` always false, and the per-folder
cleanup silently no-op'd for every delete. The DB-cascade transaction
ran fine, so the symptom was always "row gone, files stay" — exactly
what jodrmx hit.
The actual on-disk location is `events/active/{slug}` everywhere else
in the codebase:
- adminPhotos.js:260 — `path.posix.join('events/active', event.slug)`
- adminEvents.js:610, events.js:155, adminThumbnails.js:153 — read
from `events/active/{slug}`
- adminArchives.js:171 — reads from same root
- photoResolver.js:14-15 — documents the layout
The delete cascade was the only path looking at the non-existent column.
Cure: drop the `if (event.folder_path)` guard, read `event.slug`
instead, and remove from both `events/active/{slug}` (active gallery
folder) and `events/archived/{slug}` (the post-archive copy that
survives the archive flow). `event.slug` is NOT NULL and slugify-
sanitized (lower-case ASCII + dashes only via utils/slug.js), so the
path is well-formed and path-traversal-safe. Best-effort `fs.rm`
semantics + try/catch unchanged — failures still log a warning rather
than unwinding the DB transaction, since orphan files are recoverable
noise compared to a half-deleted DB row.
Forward fix only — does not retroactively clean up the orphans that
have accumulated on existing installs. Admins can `rm -rf
storage/events/active/<old-slug>` manually for those; not worth a
migration script for a one-time deploy ritual.
Paul Nothaft
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