Empty Trash fails silently on huge trees (server: 'Too many subcategories'); purge automatically in chunks #539

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opened 2026-10-08 06:09:04 +00:00 by sky_line · 0 comments

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Symptom: Empty Trash with a Trash holding 14,593 folders and 23,399 items. AIS PURGEDESCENDENTS returned 403 Forbidden with "Too many subcategories in request". Nothing was deleted and the user got no message.

Owner decision: when the server refuses, empty the Trash automatically in parts. Refusing is bad UX, because the only manual fix is to purge piecemeal.

Design:

Driver: a sequential, bottom-up chunked purge. Purge or remove subtrees under an adaptive size threshold, halving the threshold on each refusal, one request at a time, with completion waits.
Confinement:
- Re-check before every request that the target is still under the folder the user confirmed purging.
- Never touch the root itself, system folders, or anything with a pending #538 copy.
Errors: no resend of identical requests. Stop and report on any other error.
UX: progress tip and completion notification.
#538 delete guard: switch from refusing to deferring. Queue the permanent delete and run it once the copies from that item or folder finish.

**Symptom:** Empty Trash with a Trash holding 14,593 folders and 23,399 items. AIS `PURGEDESCENDENTS` returned `403 Forbidden` with "Too many subcategories in request". Nothing was deleted and the user got no message. **Owner decision:** when the server refuses, empty the Trash automatically in parts. Refusing is bad UX, because the only manual fix is to purge piecemeal. **Design:** - **Driver:** a sequential, bottom-up chunked purge. Purge or remove subtrees under an adaptive size threshold, halving the threshold on each refusal, one request at a time, with completion waits. - **Confinement:** - Re-check before every request that the target is still under the folder the user confirmed purging. - Never touch the root itself, system folders, or anything with a pending #538 copy. - **Errors:** no resend of identical requests. Stop and report on any other error. - **UX:** progress tip and completion notification. - **#538 delete guard:** switch from refusing to deferring. Queue the permanent delete and run it once the copies from that item or folder finish.

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