Operator-flagged: the recovered defective files live DEEP in their artists'
back-catalogues — the normal download cadence (by design, via the seen-gates)
will never re-walk them, so recovery's source re-check alone can't bring them
back. The durable per-post handle is the ExternalLink row, which survives the
image delete:
- services/external_links.refetch_links_for_post: reset settled links to
pending (fresh attempt budget, in-flight left alone) + dispatch their
fetches; sha-dedupe at import discards payload files that still exist, so
only the missing file lands.
- recover_defective_image now captures the image's post ids BEFORE the delete
cascades provenance away and resets those posts' links — future recoveries
are surgical automatically (response gains links_reset; source re-check
stays for gallery-dl-native files within walk reach).
- POST /api/admin/posts/refetch-external {external_post_id, source_id?} — the
manual tool for the three files recovered before this fix existed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CDgx8bQS5YrGRK76v8HUnM
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