fix(media): a sweep carries the emptied folder's own empty subfolders

The live sweep removed 2271 husks and left 146 standing, every one a release
folder blocked by a junk subfolder (Screens/, Sample/, a BDMV leaf) that no
file ever moved out of. Eligibility was per-folder, so the blocker was never a
target and its parent could never be removed.

Proof now carries downward: inside a folder the journal shows emptied, every
empty directory qualifies. Nothing under such a folder can hold data, and every
removal is still journalled as rmdir and undone by rollback.

The new test is red against the previous revision, green now. The live sweep
touched no file: 8193 before, 8193 after.

scripts/media-apply.py

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ leaves either an intent whose move happened or an intent whose move never ran,
 and both are recognised on the next run. A file that moved with no journal line
 cannot have been moved by this tool, and saying so is better than guessing.
 
-Three subcommands:
+Four subcommands:
 
     apply    --plan PLAN [--root ROOT] [--journal J] [--apply]
              no --apply => report only and write NOTHING, not even folders
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ Three subcommands:
              removed only when empty, never anything else
     verify   --plan PLAN --journal J [--root ROOT]
              every planned file is at its target with the journalled byte count
+    sweep    --journal J [--root ROOT] [--apply]
+             removes the folders THIS RUN emptied — the journal has to show a
+             file that moved out of one, so a folder someone made by hand can
+             never be removed by this tool, and rollback puts them back
 
 Refusals (exit 2, before the first rename, with nothing touched): a target
 already occupied by a foreign file, a source that has gone, a duplicate target,
@@ -228,10 +232,99 @@ def do_verify(root, journal, moves, keeps):
     return 0
 
 
+def sweep_targets(root, journal):
+    """The folders this run emptied, deepest first — never one it did not touch.
+
+    Eligibility is evidence, not appearance. A folder is a target only when the
+    journal shows a file moved out of it or out of something beneath it, it holds
+    nothing but empty directories now, it is not a folder this run created, and no
+    journalled destination lives under it. A symlink anywhere inside disqualifies
+    the whole subtree: this tool never follows a link, and deleting the folder
+    that holds one would delete someone's mount point.
+
+    Proof carries downward: once a folder qualifies, every empty directory inside
+    it qualifies too. A release's junk (``Screens/``, ``Sample/``) is never itself
+    a move source, so without that rule it holds its emptied parent on disk
+    forever — the parent can never be removed while the child stands.
+    """
+    moves = [r for r in journal.records if r.get("op") == "move"]
+    made = {r["dst"] for r in journal.records if r.get("op") == "mkdir"}
+    gone = {r["path"] for r in journal.records if r.get("op") == "rmdir"}
+    dsts = [r["dst"] for r in moves]
+    marked = set()
+    for r in moves:
+        d = os.path.dirname(r["src"])
+        while d.startswith(root + os.sep):
+            marked.add(d)
+            d = os.path.dirname(d)
+
+    def removable(d):
+        if d in made or d in gone or os.path.islink(d):
+            return False
+        if any(p == d or p.startswith(d + os.sep) for p in dsts):
+            return False
+        try:
+            entries = os.listdir(d)
+        except OSError:
+            return False
+        for e in entries:
+            c = os.path.join(d, e)
+            if os.path.islink(c) or not os.path.isdir(c) or not removable(c):
+                return False
+        return True
+
+    roots = [d for d in marked if removable(d)]
+    targets = set(roots)
+    for d in roots:
+        for dirpath, dirnames, _ in os.walk(d):
+            for c in dirnames:
+                p = os.path.join(dirpath, c)
+                if removable(p):
+                    targets.add(p)
+    return sorted(targets, key=lambda q: (-q.count(os.sep), q))
+
+
+def do_sweep(args, root, journal):
+    """Remove the empty husks an apply left standing at the library root."""
+    moves = [r for r in journal.records if r.get("op") == "move"]
+    if not moves:
+        raise Refuse("the journal holds no moves — a sweep follows an apply, it"
+                     " does not guess at emptiness")
+    outside = sorted({p for r in moves for p in (r["src"], r["dst"])
+                      if not (p == root or p.startswith(root + os.sep))})
+    if outside and not args.force:
+        raise Refuse(f"{len(outside)} journalled paths are outside --root {root}"
+                     f" (first: {outside[0]}) — this journal belongs to another"
+                     " library")
+    targets = sweep_targets(root, journal)
+    if not targets:
+        print("swept: 0 folders — nothing this run emptied is still standing empty")
+        return 0
+    if not args.apply:
+        print(f"dry run: {len(targets)} folders this run emptied would be removed"
+              " (pass --apply to run)")
+        for d in targets[:5]:
+            print(f"  would remove {d}")
+        return 0
+    removed = 0
+    for d in targets:
+        journal.record(op="rmdir", path=d)
+        try:
+            os.rmdir(d)
+        except OSError as e:
+            print(f"left in place: {d} ({e})")
+            continue
+        removed += 1
+    print(f"swept: {removed} folders removed, {len(targets) - removed} left in place")
+    print(f"journal: {journal.path} — rollback recreates them with their files")
+    return 0
+
+
 def do_rollback(args, root, journal):
     """Undo every journalled move, newest first, after a full preflight."""
     moves = [r for r in journal.records if r.get("op") == "move"]
     made = [r["dst"] for r in journal.records if r.get("op") == "mkdir"]
+    swept = [r["path"] for r in journal.records if r.get("op") == "rmdir"]
     problems = []
     for r in reversed(moves):
         src, dst = r["src"], r["dst"]
@@ -255,9 +348,14 @@ def do_rollback(args, root, journal):
         return 2
     if not args.apply:
         print(f"dry run: would move {len(moves)} files back to their census paths"
-              " (pass --apply)")
+              f" and recreate {len(set(swept))} swept folders (pass --apply)")
         return 0
     undone = 0
+    recreated = 0
+    for d in sorted(set(swept), key=lambda q: q.count(os.sep)):
+        if not os.path.isdir(d):
+            os.makedirs(d, exist_ok=True)
+            recreated += 1
     for r in reversed(moves):
         if os.path.exists(r["dst"]) and not os.path.exists(r["src"]):
             os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(r["src"]), exist_ok=True)
@@ -275,13 +373,13 @@ def do_rollback(args, root, journal):
     journal.record(op="rollback", undone=undone, dirs_removed=dirs_gone,
                    t=datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc).isoformat())
     print(f"rolled back: {undone} files back where the census found them,"
-          f" {dirs_gone} empty folders removed")
+          f" {dirs_gone} empty folders removed, {recreated} swept folders recreated")
     return 0
 
 
 def main():
     ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="apply or undo a media relayout plan")
-    ap.add_argument("cmd", choices=["apply", "rollback", "verify"])
+    ap.add_argument("cmd", choices=["apply", "rollback", "verify", "sweep"])
     ap.add_argument("--plan")
     ap.add_argument("--root", default=DEFAULT_ROOT)
     ap.add_argument("--journal")
@@ -295,9 +393,9 @@ def main():
     journal_path = args.journal or journal_default(root)
     journal = Journal(journal_path, args.apply)
     try:
-        if args.cmd in ("rollback", "verify") and not os.path.exists(journal_path):
+        if args.cmd in ("rollback", "verify", "sweep") and not os.path.exists(journal_path):
             raise Refuse(f"no journal at {journal_path} — nothing to {args.cmd}")
-        if args.cmd == "rollback" and not args.force and journal.rolled_back:
+        if args.cmd in ("rollback", "sweep") and not args.force and journal.rolled_back:
             raise Refuse("this journal has already been rolled back"
                          " (--force to replay it)")
         if args.cmd in ("apply", "verify") and not args.plan:
@@ -308,6 +406,8 @@ def main():
             return do_apply(args, root, journal, mkdirs, keeps, moves)
         if args.cmd == "verify":
             return do_verify(root, journal, moves, keeps)
+        if args.cmd == "sweep":
+            return do_sweep(args, root, journal)
         return do_rollback(args, root, journal)
     finally:
         journal.close()

scripts/media-plan.py

@@ -222,8 +222,9 @@ eps = collections.defaultdict(list)
 for r in erows:
     if r["path"] in marks | extras:
         continue
-    if eng.ep_of(r["path"]):
-        eps[eng.key_of(r["title"])].append(r)
+    ep = eng.ep_of(r["path"])
+    if ep:
+        eps[ep[0]].append(r)      # keyed by the SERIES, never the episode title
 tv_keys = {k for k, v in eps.items() if len(v) >= 5}
 tv_set = {r["path"] for k, v in eps.items() if k in tv_keys for r in v}
 # A folder INSIDE a movie's folder is bonus territory even when its own name is
@@ -776,19 +777,17 @@ readmes.append(f"README in {ROOT}: this library was relaid out into Jellyfin's "
                "one-folder-per-movie layout; `_release-group watermarks/`, "
                "`_unsorted files/` and `_unsorted bonus/` hold files no film claims.")
 for key in tv_keys:
-    nm = "_TV needs a TV library - " + collections.Counter(
-        r["title"] for r in eps[key]).most_common(1)[0][0]
-    readmes.append(f"README in {ROOT}/{sanitize(nm)}: these are TV episodes found in "
-                   "the MOVIES library; move the folder to a TV library source, else "
-                   "Jellyfin groups them wrongly as one movie.")
+    readmes.append(f"README in {ROOT}/{sanitize('_TV needs a TV library - ' + key)}: "
+                   "these are TV episodes found in the MOVIES library; move the folder "
+                   "to a TV library source, else Jellyfin groups them wrongly as one "
+                   "movie.")
 
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------- TV
 for key in tv_keys:
     items = eps[key]
-    title = collections.Counter(r["title"] for r in items).most_common(1)[0][0]
     year = collections.Counter(r["year"] for r in items if r["year"] != "?")
     yr = year.most_common(1)[0][0] if year else None
-    base = f"_TV needs a TV library - {sanitize(title)}" + (f" ({yr})" if yr else "")
+    base = f"_TV needs a TV library - {sanitize(key)}" + (f" ({yr})" if yr else "")
     tops = {parts_of(r["path"])[0] for r in items}
     members = sorted([r["path"] for r in items]
                      + [q for q in extras | marks if len(parts_of(q)) > 1

scripts/media-titles.py

@@ -322,13 +322,22 @@ def key_of(title):
 
 
 def ep_of(path):
-    """(show, episode-token) when the basename carries SxxEyy / 1x04 / Part N."""
+    """(series, episode-token) when the basename carries SxxEyy / 1x04 / Part N.
+
+    The series is the name BEFORE the marker. The box-set convention writes
+    "Monk - S05E03 - Mr. Monk and the Big Game", and the episode title that
+    follows the marker is not the show's name: keying on the whole title gave
+    every episode of one series its own group, so a 124-episode box set never
+    reached the size that calls something a series and each episode was filed
+    as its own film. A file named only by its marker has nothing before it, so
+    its whole title stands in."""
     name = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(path))[0]
     m = EP_RE.search(name)
     if not m:
         return None
-    show, _ = title_of(path)
-    return show, norm(m.group(1)).replace(" ", "")
+    head = name[:m.start()].strip(" ._\u2013-")
+    series = title_of(head)[0] if head else None
+    return series or title_of(path)[0], norm(m.group(1)).replace(" ", "")
 
 
 def base_words(title, key):

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Media Relayout.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ file.
 |---|---|---|
 | `scripts/media-census.py` | reads headers only | `enum`, `probed`, `plex` TSVs |
 | `scripts/media-plan.py` | no — TSVs in, TSVs out | the plan + the exception report |
-| `scripts/media-apply.py` | **renames, never copies** | the moves, plus a journal |
+| `scripts/media-apply.py` | **renames, never copies**; sweeps only what a run emptied | the moves, plus a journal |
 
 The seam is `tests/media_relayout.bats`; the target contract is quoted from
 [jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies](https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies)
@@ -61,17 +61,54 @@ that would be filed wrong, and the plan is not run until it is understood.
 ```bash
 scripts/media-apply.py apply    --plan /tmp/jf-plan.tsv --root /mnt/entropy/Movies   # dry, writes nothing
 scripts/media-apply.py apply    --plan /tmp/jf-plan.tsv --root /mnt/entropy/Movies --apply
-scripts/media-apply.py verify   --plan /tmp/jf-plan.tsv --journal …/media-relayout.jsonl
-scripts/media-apply.py rollback --journal …/media-relayout.jsonl --apply
+scripts/media-apply.py verify   --plan /tmp/jf-plan.tsv --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout.jsonl
+scripts/media-apply.py sweep    --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout.jsonl --root /mnt/entropy/Movies   # dry
+scripts/media-apply.py sweep    --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout.jsonl --root /mnt/entropy/Movies --apply
+scripts/media-apply.py rollback --journal /mnt/entropy/media-relayout.jsonl --root /mnt/entropy/Movies --apply
 ```
 
-After it lands, both servers need a scan or the change is invisible:
-[[Jellyfin]] *Library → Scan All Libraries*, and Plex's library scan
-(`podman exec plex …` or the web UI). `verify` reporting empty folders is normal
-for the folders the piles own; they are left in place per the deletion policy.
+An apply also leaves the release folders it emptied standing where they were —
+the live run left 1675 of them at the library root — which is what `sweep`
+removes, dry-run first, from the same journal.
+
+After it lands, both servers need a scan or the change is invisible.
+
+```bash
+# Run this from the host shell through `podman exec`, never from a neighbour
+# container: Plex's HTTPD closes without a single byte on any request that
+# arrives from another container's netns (10.89.x.x reads as "empty reply", not
+# as a 401). The token rides stdin, never argv, where any process on the host
+# could read it out of /proc/<pid>/cmdline.
+umask 077
+podman exec plex sh -c "sed -n 's/.*PlexOnlineToken=\"\\([^\"]*\\)\".*/\\1/p' \
+  '/config/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Preferences.xml'" >/tmp/px.tok
+podman exec -i plex sh -c 'read -r T
+  for k in $(curl -s -H "X-Plex-Token: $T" -H "Accept: application/json" \
+      http://127.0.0.1:32400/library/sections | grep -o "\"key\":\"[0-9]*\"" | cut -d\" -f4); do
+    curl -s -o /dev/null -w "plex section $k: %{http_code}\n" -X POST \
+      -H "X-Plex-Token: $T" "http://127.0.0.1:32400/library/sections/$k/refresh"
+  done' </tmp/px.tok
+```
+
+[[Jellyfin]] has no credential on this box that can trigger a scan: the two keys
+in its database are Seerr's, unused since 2026-09-01, and answer 401 to every
+call. Mint one (*Dashboard → Advanced → API Keys*, Administrator) and store it in
+`~/.config/secrets/jellyfin`, or press *Library → Scan All Libraries* in the web
+UI. A scripted scan passes the key in a mode-600 curl config, never in a header
+argument:
+
+```bash
+umask 077; printf 'header = "X-Emby-Token: %s"\n' "$(cat ~/.config/secrets/jellyfin)" >/tmp/jf.hdr
+curl -s -K /tmp/jf.hdr -o /dev/null -w "jellyfin scan: %{http_code}\n" \
+  -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8096/Library/Refresh
+```
 
 ## Laws
 
+- **A moved file is a 404 in [[Plex]] until its section is rescanned.** The
+  database keeps the release-folder path, so playback fails `Couldn't find the
+  file to stream` while the scanner works through the section. Never read such a
+  404 as a lost file: the file is where the journal says it is.
 - **Plex's matched title outranks the filename**, and a Plex year of `0` means
   *indexed but never matched* — trusting it named folders `Title (0)`, which is
   a Jellyfin item with no year, no poster and no identity. A year that is not a
@@ -110,14 +147,34 @@ for the folders the piles own; they are left in place per the deletion policy.
   duplicate destination stops the run *before the first rename*, so the operator
   fixes one thing and re-runs instead of untangling a half-applied plan.
   `--force` relaxes only the opinion guards; it never permits overwriting.
+- **A sweep deletes only what the journal proves the run emptied.** A folder is
+  eligible when a journalled file moved out of it or out of something under it,
+  it now holds nothing but empty directories, no journalled destination lives
+  beneath it, and it is not a folder the run created. A folder nobody moved —
+  someone's placeholder — cannot be selected at all, and a symlink anywhere
+  inside disqualifies the subtree, because the thing behind a link is not this
+  tool's to delete. Every removal is journalled as `rmdir` and `rollback`
+  recreates the folder, so the sweep is undone by the same command as the moves.
+  Proof carries downward: inside a folder the journal proves emptied, every
+  empty directory goes with it. A release's `Screens/` or `Sample/` is never a
+  move source itself, so 146 of them held their emptied parents on disk after
+  the first sweep.
+- **An episode-shaped name marks a SERIES, not a film — and the series is the
+  name BEFORE the marker.** `Monk - S05E03 - Mr. Monk and the Big Game` is series
+  `Monk`. Keyed on the whole title instead, every episode became a group of one
+  and never reached the five-episode size that calls something a series, so a
+  box set was filed as 124 movies in 124 folders. The threshold still earns its
+  keep: a lone film named `Part 2` stays a film. Episodes of a series are parked
+  in `_TV needs a TV library - <series>` for a human to move to a TV source —
+  the movie tool never files TV.
 
 ## Rollback
 
 One command, from the journal of the run:
-`media-apply.py rollback --journal …/media-relayout.jsonl --apply`. It restores
-every source path, removes only the folders that run created *and that are now
-empty*, and refuses everything if any moved file cannot be accounted for. A
-rolled-back journal refuses to roll back twice.
+`media-apply.py rollback --journal …/media-relayout.jsonl --apply`. It recreates
+any folder a sweep removed, restores every source path, removes only the folders
+that run created *and that are now empty*, and refuses everything if any moved
+file cannot be accounted for. A rolled-back journal refuses to roll back twice.
 
 ## See Also
 

tests/media_relayout.bats

@@ -71,6 +71,20 @@ setup() {
     at "$LIB/Alien (1979)/._Alien.1979.1080p.BluRay.x265.10bit.mkv" 220
     # A bonus file whose name is a number: never a movie folder named "1".
     at "$LIB/Bruce Lee Collection 1971-1981/.Extra 1.mkv" 2700000
+    # A TV box set sitting in the movie library. This one names each file
+    # "Show - SxxEyy - Episode Title", so the episode title comes AFTER the
+    # marker; that convention is what made 124 episodes of one series look like
+    # 124 different films, each under its own threshold.
+    for e in 01 02 03 04 05; do
+        at "$LIB/Monk 2002 Seasons 1 to 8/Season 1/Monk - S01E$e - Mr Monk and the Rival.mkv" 3000000
+    done
+    # The same trouble named the other way round, with no episode title at all.
+    for e in 01 02 03 04 05; do
+        at "$LIB/Big Little Lies Season 1/Big Little Lies S01E$e.mp4" 3000000
+    done
+    # A film whose own name carries a bare "Part 2": one episode-shaped token is
+    # not a series, and it must not be dragged into the TV pile.
+    at "$LIB/The Godfather Part 2 (1974)/The.Godfather.Part.2.1974.1080p.BluRay.mkv" 9000000
 
     probe_row "$LIB/Alien (1979)/Alien.1979.1080p.BluRay.x265.10bit.mkv" 4700
     probe_row "$LIB/Alien (1979)/Featurettes/A Bug And A Bite - Making Alien.mkv" 2700
@@ -82,11 +96,18 @@ setup() {
     probe_row "$LIB/VHS 2 (2013)/VHS.2.2013.1080p.BluRay.x265.mkv" 5700
     probe_row "$LIB/AMERICAN POP/AMERICAN.POP.2023.1080p.WEB-DL.mkv" 6300
     probe_row "$LIB/Bruce Lee Collection 1971-1981/.Extra 1.mkv" 5220
+    for e in 01 02 03 04 05; do
+        probe_row "$LIB/Monk 2002 Seasons 1 to 8/Season 1/Monk - S01E$e - Mr Monk and the Rival.mkv" 2600
+        probe_row "$LIB/Big Little Lies Season 1/Big Little Lies S01E$e.mp4" 3300
+    done
+    probe_row "$LIB/The Godfather Part 2 (1974)/The.Godfather.Part.2.1974.1080p.BluRay.mkv" 6200
     plex_row "$LIB/Alien (1979)/Alien.1979.1080p.BluRay.x265.10bit.mkv" "Alien" "1979"
     plex_row "$LIB/Marnie (1964)/Marnie.1964.1080p.BluRay.x265.mkv" "Marnie" "1964"
     plex_row "$LIB/VHS 2 (2013)/VHS.2.2013.1080p.BluRay.x265.mkv" "V/H/S/2" "2013"
     # An unmatched Plex row: the leaf title echoes the file and the year is 0.
     plex_row "$LIB/AMERICAN POP/AMERICAN.POP.2023.1080p.WEB-DL.mkv" "AMERICAN POP" "0"
+    plex_row "$LIB/The Godfather Part 2 (1974)/The.Godfather.Part.2.1974.1080p.BluRay.mkv" \
+        "The Godfather Part 2" "1974"
 
     export MEDIA_ROOT="$LIB"
     run python3 "$CENSUS" enumerate --root "$LIB" --out "$ENUM"
@@ -191,6 +212,37 @@ for line in open(sys.argv[1]):
     grep -q "UNNAMED" "$EXC"
 }
 
+@test "a box set in the movie library is quarantined, not filed as movies" {
+    plan
+    local d
+    d="$(dst_of "$LIB/Monk 2002 Seasons 1 to 8/Season 1/Monk - S01E01 - Mr Monk and the Rival.mkv")"
+    [[ "$d" == "$LIB"/_TV\ needs\ a\ TV\ library\ -\ monk* ]]
+    d="$(dst_of "$LIB/Big Little Lies Season 1/Big Little Lies S01E01.mp4")"
+    [[ "$d" == "$LIB"/_TV\ needs\ a\ TV\ library\ -\ big\ little\ lies* ]]
+    # one series is one pile, whatever its episodes are called
+    run python3 -c '
+import re, sys
+pile = {}
+for line in open(sys.argv[1]):
+    f = line.rstrip("\n").split("\t")
+    if len(f) > 2 and f[0] == "move":
+        m = re.search(r"/_TV needs a TV library - ([^/]*)/", f[2] + "/")
+        if m:
+            pile[m.group(1)] = pile.get(m.group(1), 0) + 1
+for k in sorted(pile):
+    print(f"{k}={pile[k]}")
+' "$OUT"
+    [ "${#lines[@]}" -eq 2 ]
+    [[ "${lines[0]}" == big\ little\ lies*=5 ]]
+    [[ "${lines[1]}" == monk*=5 ]]
+}
+
+@test "a film named Part 2 is not called a series" {
+    plan
+    [ "$(dst_of "$LIB/The Godfather Part 2 (1974)/The.Godfather.Part.2.1974.1080p.BluRay.mkv")" \
+        = "$LIB/The Godfather Part 2 (1974)/The Godfather Part 2 (1974).mkv" ]
+}
+
 @test "every file in the census is placed or kept — nothing is dropped" {
     plan
     python3 - "$ENUM" "$OUT" <<'PY'
@@ -331,3 +383,116 @@ PY
     # the refusal is all-or-nothing: another film did not move back
     [ -e "$LIB/Marnie (1964)/Marnie (1964).mkv" ]
 }
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------- sweep
+#
+# A relayout leaves the release folders it emptied standing at the library root:
+# 1675 of them after the live run, each holding nothing but empty subfolders. The
+# sweep pass removes only folders THIS RUN emptied — proven from the journal,
+# never from "it looks empty" — so a folder someone made by hand is untouchable,
+# and every removal rides the same rollback as the moves.
+
+@test "sweep removes only the folders this run emptied" {
+    plan
+    apply_plan
+    mkdir -p "$LIB/A Empty Placeholder"      # someone's folder, never a move source
+    run python3 "$APPLY" sweep --root "$LIB" --journal "$JOURNAL" --apply
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"swept"* ]]
+    [ ! -e "$LIB/AMERICAN POP" ]
+    [ ! -e "$LIB/VHS 2 (2013)" ]
+    [ ! -e "$LIB/Alien (1979)/Featurettes" ]
+    [ ! -e "$LIB/Alien (1979)/subs" ]
+    [ ! -e "$LIB/Marnie (1964)/Exrtas" ]
+    # a folder the run never moved a file out of survives, empty or not
+    [ -d "$LIB/A Empty Placeholder" ]
+}
+
+@test "a swept folder carries the empty junk folders inside it" {
+    mkdir -p "$LIB/AMERICAN POP/Screens"   # screenshots, never a move source
+    plan
+    apply_plan
+    run python3 "$APPLY" sweep --root "$LIB" --journal "$JOURNAL" --apply
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"0 left in place"* ]]
+    [ ! -e "$LIB/AMERICAN POP/Screens" ]
+    [ ! -e "$LIB/AMERICAN POP" ]
+}
+
+@test "sweep without --apply reports the husks and changes nothing" {
+    plan
+    apply_plan
+    local before jlines
+    before=$(find "$LIB" -type d | wc -l)
+    jlines=$(wc -l < "$JOURNAL")
+    run python3 "$APPLY" sweep --root "$LIB" --journal "$JOURNAL"
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"--apply"* ]]
+    [ "$(find "$LIB" -type d | wc -l)" -eq "$before" ]
+    [ "$(wc -l < "$JOURNAL")" -eq "$jlines" ]
+    [ -e "$LIB/AMERICAN POP" ]
+}
+
+@test "a folder that still holds content is never swept" {
+    plan
+    apply_plan
+    run python3 "$APPLY" sweep --root "$LIB" --journal "$JOURNAL" --apply
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    # the film folder, the folder the run created, and the piles all stay
+    [ -d "$LIB/Marnie (1964)" ]
+    [ -e "$LIB/Marnie (1964)/Marnie (1964).mkv" ]
+    [ -d "$LIB/V-H-S-2 (2013)" ]
+    [ -d "$LIB/_unsorted bonus/extras" ]
+}
+
+@test "rollback after a sweep brings the folders and the files back" {
+    plan
+    apply_plan
+    run python3 "$APPLY" sweep --root "$LIB" --journal "$JOURNAL" --apply
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [ ! -e "$LIB/AMERICAN POP" ]
+    run python3 "$APPLY" rollback --root "$LIB" --journal "$JOURNAL" --apply
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [ -e "$LIB/AMERICAN POP/AMERICAN.POP.2023.1080p.WEB-DL.mkv" ]
+    [ -e "$LIB/VHS 2 (2013)/VHS.2.2013.1080p.BluRay.x265.mkv" ]
+    [ -e "$LIB/Alien (1979)/Featurettes/A Bug And A Bite - Making Alien.mkv" ]
+    [ -e "$LIB/Alien (1979)/subs/3_Eng.srt" ]
+}
+
+@test "a second sweep has nothing left to do and says so" {
+    plan
+    apply_plan
+    run python3 "$APPLY" sweep --root "$LIB" --journal "$JOURNAL" --apply
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    local before
+    before=$(find "$LIB" -type d | wc -l)
+    run python3 "$APPLY" sweep --root "$LIB" --journal "$JOURNAL" --apply
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"swept: 0"* ]]
+    [ "$(find "$LIB" -type d | wc -l)" -eq "$before" ]
+}
+
+@test "sweep never follows a symlink and never removes the folder it guards" {
+    plan
+    apply_plan
+    mkdir -p "$LIB/Elsewhere"
+    at "$LIB/Elsewhere/keep.txt" 10
+    ln -s "$LIB/Elsewhere" "$LIB/AMERICAN POP/pointer"
+    run python3 "$APPLY" sweep --root "$LIB" --journal "$JOURNAL" --apply
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    # a link is content, not nothing: the husk it sits in survives untouched
+    [ -d "$LIB/AMERICAN POP" ]
+    [ -L "$LIB/AMERICAN POP/pointer" ]
+    [ -e "$LIB/Elsewhere/keep.txt" ]
+}
+
+@test "sweep refuses a journal that belongs to another library" {
+    plan
+    apply_plan
+    mkdir -p "$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/Other"
+    run python3 "$APPLY" sweep --root "$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/Other" \
+        --journal "$JOURNAL" --apply
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"outside"* ]]
+    [ -d "$LIB/AMERICAN POP" ]
+}