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dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 8eeb9ba0f6 Offer the backup, and then the rebuild, when the index turns out to be damaged
NFR-R6 asks for an integrity check at startup and two offers behind it, and
none of it existed. `PRAGMA integrity_check` appeared nowhere in the tree,
`Catalog::open` was `open` → `configure` → `migrate` → `backfill` and nothing
else, and corruption therefore surfaced as whatever rusqlite error the first
unlucky query happened to produce — "database disk image is malformed"
attached to a thumbnail refresh, elided into a 34px banner, over an empty
grid saying "No images found · Check the library folder". Two messages that
disagreed, and no way forward but deleting catalog.sqlite by hand.

The property that makes the second offer real was already here and load-
bearing: the catalog is an index, not a source of truth, rebuildable from
sources plus sidecars (invariant §5.2.4, cited by schema.rs, trash.rs and
lib.rs). And sync.rs already knew how to take a coherent snapshot of a WAL
database. What was missing was the check, the type, and the conversation.

Four pieces:

**The type.** `CatalogError::Corrupt`, and — the part that makes it worth
having — a hand-written `From<rusqlite::Error>` that classifies rather than
wraps. `SQLITE_CORRUPT` and `SQLITE_NOTADB` become `Corrupt` wherever they
arise, so a background job that trips over the damage first reports the same
thing the startup check would have. `SQLITE_IOERR` and `SQLITE_BUSY`
deliberately do not: a dropped network mount is a different problem, and
telling someone to rebuild their index would be a wrong answer delivered
confidently.

**The check.** `Catalog::open_verified`, `quick_check` before the open rather
than after, because opening runs migrations and a damaged catalog with an
intact header would otherwise have structure rewritten on top of structure
that is already wrong. Bound to `open_verified` and not to `open`: the check
reads every page, which is affordable once at startup where a user can answer
a question, and not affordable on the dozens of opens a session's background
tasks make.

**The backup.** NFR-R2's second clause, taken between `configure` and
`migrate` in `Catalog::open`. A migration is the one routine operation that
rewrites table structure, so it is the likeliest way this file becomes
unreadable, and it is the last moment the pre-migration state exists to be
copied. Three generations, through SQLite's backup API after a TRUNCATE
checkpoint — never `fs::copy`, which on a WAL database backs up a state older
than the catalog and possibly torn. A failure to take the copy is logged, not
raised: a full disk must not be what makes a library unopenable.

**The conversation.** The first line of the dialogue is that the photographs
and the edits are safe, before the diagnosis, because that is the question the
user is actually asking. Then the two offers, which are *not* interchangeable
and are not presented as if they were: a restore keeps collections, and a
rebuild cannot, because a manual collection is a set of images assembled by
hand and nothing in the filesystem records it (docs/catalog.md §8.1). The
labels say so, and the rebuild does not take the affirmative styling while a
restore is on the table.

One thing that is a fix rather than a feature: `show_catalog_now` now gates
the scan. `Catalog::open` succeeds on a file whose header survived, so the
scan that used to start immediately afterwards would write folder ETags and
image rows into damaged pages in the seconds while the user was still reading
the question — turning a file that had a backup into one where the backup is
the only copy left.

Restore also deletes the damaged catalog's `-wal` and `-shm`. That step is
easy to leave out and fatal to leave out: a journal belonging to the old file,
sitting beside the new one under the same name, is replayed into it on the
next open. That is not a restore, it is a fresh corruption with the evidence
gone.

Tested by corrupting a fixture catalog — 500 images and a collection, then
every page past the second overwritten — and driving both branches. The
restore is asserted on the collection, because a collection is precisely what
distinguishes the two paths; the rebuild on the damaged file being kept and
the next open producing an empty catalog at the current schema. Plus the
`SQLITE_NOTADB` presentation, a damaged backup being refused rather than
installed, and a v1 catalog whose pre-migration backup comes back reading
v1 rather than v11.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 10:34:12 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 79c0520506 Keep the face, not just a way to find it again
A face was drawn by decoding the 1024px proxy it was found on and cutting the
box out again, every time the People screen opened. That made the screen a
derivative of the thumbnail cache: evict a proxy — which the cache may do at any
moment — and the cell goes blank, with no way back short of re-fetching the
original over the network and re-detecting it. It also cost a full JPEG decode
per image, per visit, to show a 96px cell.

So the crop is cut once, when the pixels are already in hand at detection time,
and kept. A 160px JPEG is a few KB against the ~250 KB proxy it replaces reading.

Where it lives is the interesting part. The catalog snapshot is uploaded *whole*
on every sync and downloaded by every device, so a crop column there would put
tens of MB on every round trip — the exact cost `face_shard`'s 25 MB cap exists
to bound, and the reason bulk per-face data lives in shards already. Crops
therefore travel in the face shards, beside the embeddings, and
`snapshot_for_upload` strips them from the copy it writes. Nothing reads a crop
out of a merged remote catalog — the merge touches collections and keywords only
— so a receiving device loses nothing. A shard carrying crops holds around 3,500
faces rather than 22,000, which is the price of a second device showing People
immediately instead of re-fetching every proxy.

The column is nullable and the reader falls back to the proxy, so a face indexed
before this still works and the next indexing pass fills it in.

V10 also adds `people.ignored`, for a person the user has looked at and does not
want to identify. Most clusters in a real library are strangers — passers-by,
other people's guests, a face on a poster — and there is no way to tell "not yet
looked at" from "looked at, don't care" without recording the second. It is a
column rather than a deletion because a deleted cluster comes straight back on
the next Regroup: the faces are still there and still similar, and nothing short
of remembering the judgement survives re-clustering. Same argument
`face_person_rejected` makes one level down.

And `prune_empty_unnamed`, for what clustering leaves behind. Regroup creates a
person per unanchored group and never removed the previous run's now-empty ones,
so pressing it twice added a rail entry per group it no longer believed in.
Named people are never touched however empty — a name is user data — nor is a
merge tombstone, which must outlive its faces to keep redirecting.

298 tests pass, including that the snapshot carries no crops while the live
catalog keeps them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 21:17:44 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 62188ec740 Keep both devices' keywords when the catalogs meet
Keywords are catalog state, and the catalog syncs. Without this, two devices
keywording the same library would resolve to whichever synced last, and an
afternoon of work would vanish with no sign it had ever happened.

The vocabulary merges per row on the rule collections already use: revision
first, timestamp only to break a tie, so a device with a skewed clock cannot win
by having the wrong idea of the time. Assignments merge as a set union, which is
FR-NC-9's principle applied to metadata instead of edit nodes — disjoint work
survives on both sides.

Three things needed care and are commented where they happen:

A deletion travels *by name*, not by identity. Both devices may have minted
their own uuid for one word before they ever synced, so deleting by uuid would
tombstone a row nothing was assigned to and leave every photograph still
carrying the word. The union then refuses to readmit a word a winning tombstone
has just removed — without that filter the remote's live assignments would
resurrect it on the very same pass.

Images are resolved by the server's file id first and the content hash second.
Membership has always used the hash alone, but the hash is computed only when
import dedup or a reconnect asks for it, which for most libraries is never — so
a hash-only union would have quietly done nothing for the ordinary photograph.

A word lands on the local default version. Version uuids do not reconcile in the
catalog at all: ensure_default_versions mints a fresh one per device, so a
uuid-keyed join would have unioned nothing.

Removal still does not propagate. That is the trade collection membership
already makes, for the same reason — an unwanted keyword is removed again in a
second, and a silently lost afternoon is not recoverable at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 15:51:00 +02:00
dtourolle c8bb08e661 Add folder scan with format selection; validate A3 on a real library
Library setup as the user described it: pick a folder, choose which RAW
types to look for, scan recursively.

  dr-types::FormatFilter  the tick-box selection, seeing through VFS
                          placeholder suffixes so a dehydrated CR2 still
                          matches as a CR2
  dr-sync::scan           recursive walk, Depth:1 per directory, pruning
                          unchanged subtrees where the backend propagates
                          directory ETags

Verified against nextcloud.tourolle.paris (34.0.2) on a real library:

  browse root      32 entries, 98ms
  scan PhotosRaw   17,185 RAW files in 334 directories, 34.1s
                   (7,836 CR2 + 9,349 DNG)
  range read       262KB of a 21.5MB DNG in 119ms — 1.22% of the file,
                   and enough to read "Canon EOS 6D | ISO 100"

That last line is assumption A3 validated on real data. Cataloguing this
library by whole-file fetch would move roughly 370GB; the range path
moves a few MB.

Pruning is capability-gated rather than assumed: with per-entry ETags a
probe costs a request and proves nothing about children, so it is skipped
entirely. A test asserts zero probes in that case.

Still unresolved: /core/preview returns 400 for every parameter
combination tried, including on a JPEG the server reports as having a
preview. Not a request-shape bug — it fails identically bare. Recorded
rather than worked around; ARCH §6.7 already treats server previews as
opportunistic, so nothing depends on it.
2026-08-09 12:22:31 +02:00