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What & why

Before: with #339, an extraction writes into a work folder, <archive>.macpack, which is removed whichever way the extraction ends — but only if MacPacker is still running at the end. If MacPacker crashes, or is force-quit, during an extraction, the work folder stays where it was: half an archive, shown dimmed in Finder as "being written", for good.

Now: the next time MacPacker starts, it removes such a leftover work folder.

  • It removes only what it is sure is its own unfinished work folder: a folder with the .macpack extension that Finder still shows as being written, and never one in the Trash. Anything else is left alone.
  • Extractions of the current run of MacPacker are never touched, so a Finder action that arrives while the clean-up runs is safe.
  • The clean-up runs in the background, so a slow disk doesn't hold up the start.
  • Not covered: an extraction the Quick Look preview runs itself (when it asks where to extract). The preview keeps its own settings, which the app can't read.

For review: while it is in use, each work folder is noted in the app's settings: its name, a security-scoped bookmark of the folder it is in (the access needed to remove it later, which the sandbox wouldn't give otherwise), and an id of the app start that writes it. The process id isn't used, since a later start can be given the same one again. An extraction that ends removes its note. At the next start, a note from an earlier start means an extraction that never ended. "Being written" is the creation date Finder uses for that (ExtractionStaging.busyDate), which nothing else gives a folder. No new strings.

Builds on #339 (ExtractionStaging); until that one is merged, its commits show here too — only the last commit is this one.

Part of #350.

How it was verified

  • Tests (ExtractionLeftoversAfterStopTests): what a stopped extraction left is removed, and nothing else in that folder; a folder no longer marked as being written, or not named as a work folder, stays; a note whose folder is gone is dropped; what this start is writing is left alone; an extraction that ends — finished, cancelled or failed — leaves no note.
  • CI, run locally: swift test --package-path Modules passes, all 687 tests; unsigned Release (MacPacker) and Release Store (MacPacker Store) builds, both universal, pass scripts/check-architectures.sh.
  • Tried in a Debug build: a large extraction, then Force Quit — the dimmed .macpack folder stays; at the next start it is gone.

Changelog

1.1.0 was released after this pull request was opened, so its block in Config/products/macpacker.json takes no new items, and this pull request no longer changes that file. Its item, for a new version block:

The items of #339, which this builds on, are in #339's description.

The full item, in all 21 languages of the file
{
  "type": "fix",
  "title": {
    "en": "Leftovers after quitting mid-extraction",
    "zh-Hans": "解压中途退出后留下残留文件",
    "fr": "Des restes après un arrêt en pleine extraction",
    "de": "Reste nach Beenden während des Entpackens",
    "it": "Residui dopo l’uscita durante un’estrazione",
    "ja": "展開中に終了すると残骸が残る",
    "fa": "باقی‌مانده‌ها پس از خروج در میانه استخراج",
    "pl": "Pozostałości po zamknięciu w trakcie wypakowywania",
    "pt-BR": "Restos ao sair no meio de uma extração",
    "ru": "Остатки после выхода во время распаковки",
    "uk": "Залишки після виходу посеред розпакування",
    "es-MX": "Restos al salir a mitad de una extracción",
    "ko": "압축 해제 중 종료하면 남는 잔여물",
    "nl": "Restanten na afsluiten tijdens het uitpakken",
    "tr": "Çıkarma sırasında kapatınca kalan artıklar",
    "vi": "Tệp thừa khi thoát giữa lúc giải nén",
    "ar": "بقايا بعد الإنهاء أثناء الاستخراج",
    "ca": "Restes en sortir a mitja extracció",
    "el": "Υπολείμματα μετά από τερματισμό κατά την εξαγωγή",
    "nb": "Rester etter avslutning midt i utpakking",
    "zh-TW": "解壓縮途中結束 App 後留下殘餘檔案"
  },
  "issues": [
    "350"
  ]
}

Checklist

  • Verification evidence is included above
  • Changelog items written out above: 1.1.0 is released, so they wait for a new version block in Config/products/macpacker.json
  • AI involvement disclosed, if AI was the primary author — see AI_CONTRIBUTING.md

AI disclosure: I designed and tested this with Claude, which wrote the code from my directions.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Failed or cancelled extractions no longer leave partial results in the destination; existing files and folders remain unchanged.
    • Successful extractions continue to merge folders and replace matching files. Finder selections include only destination folders that exist after extraction.
    • Incomplete extraction work from earlier runs is cleaned up when the app launches.
  • New Features

    • Finder displays progress while an extraction is underway.
    • MacPacker extraction files are identified as packages with the .macpack extension.

"Extract archive", Finder's three extract actions and Quick Look's
extract button handed the destination itself to the engine. A run that
was cancelled, or met a damaged entry, left what it had written by then
in the destination, together with the container folder smart extraction
had made for it.

The engine now writes into a work folder inside the destination, which
is moved into place once the extraction has succeeded and removed
otherwise. It is on the destination's own volume, so putting the result
in place is a rename, and the access the app already holds covers it.

The work folder is a placeholder Finder can show: `<archive>.macpack`,
declared as a package type so it appears as one item, dimmed the way
Finder dims what it is still copying, with the extraction's progress
published on it.

A finished extraction ends up where it did before: same layout, same
container naming, same overwriting of what is already there. What
could not be put in place (a file where a folder goes, an item that
cannot be written) now fails before anything has moved.

"Extract selected" already went through a temp folder; it no longer
leaves the empty container folder behind when it does not finish.
… is whole

Two points from the review of this pull request.

A cancel that arrived as the engine finished was ignored: the engine had
nothing left to stop and returned normally, so the result was put in
place and the run reported as done. The run is now checked for
cancellation before anything of it is committed.

Where an extracted file replaces one that sits behind a link on another
volume, the old file was removed before the new one had been copied
across, so a copy that failed left neither. The new file is now copied
beside the old one and takes its place in a single rename.
…lled "Extract to"

Two more points from the review of this pull request.

Extracting over items that are already there puts the result in place
step by step. A step that failed after earlier ones had succeeded left
the destination partly updated, and a file already replaced did not
come back. Every step can now be taken back, and is when a later one
fails: a replaced file changes places with its replacement (or is kept
beside itself where the volume cannot do that), and an item that was
moved in goes back.

Finder's Extract to "name" created its folder before extracting, so a
cancelled run left it behind, empty. The extraction now makes that
folder itself, and takes it back with a run that does not finish.
…tovers

# Conflicts:
#	Config/products/macpacker.json
Before: with sarensw#339, an extraction writes into a work folder,
<archive>.macpack, which is removed whichever way the extraction ends,
but only if MacPacker is still running at the end. If MacPacker crashed,
or was force-quit, during an extraction, the work folder stayed where it
was: half an archive, shown dimmed in Finder as "being written", for
good.

Now: the next time MacPacker starts, it removes such a leftover work
folder.

- It removes only what it is sure is its own unfinished work folder: a
  folder with the .macpack extension that Finder still shows as being
  written, and never one in the Trash. Anything else is left alone.
- Extractions of the current run of MacPacker are never touched, so a
  Finder action that arrives while the clean-up runs is safe.
- The clean-up runs in the background, so a slow disk doesn't hold up
  the start.
- Not covered: an extraction the Quick Look preview runs itself (when it
  asks where to extract). The preview keeps its own settings, which the
  app can't read.

For review: while it is in use, each work folder is noted in the app's
settings: its name, a security-scoped bookmark of the folder it is in
(the access needed to remove it later, which the sandbox wouldn't give
otherwise), and an id of the app start that writes it. The process id
isn't used, since a later start can be given the same one again. An
extraction that ends removes its note. At the next start, a note from an
earlier start means an extraction that never ended. "Being written" is
the creation date Finder uses for that (ExtractionStaging.busyDate),
which nothing else gives a folder.

Builds on sarensw#339 (ExtractionStaging).
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Archive extraction now writes to staging folders before committing results. Failed or cancelled extraction discards staged output. The app records eligible staging folders and removes leftovers from earlier runs at startup.

Changes: Staged extraction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Stage and commit extraction results
Modules/Sources/Core/Extraction/ExtractionStaging.swift, Modules/Tests/CoreTests/ExtractionStagingTests.swift
ExtractionStaging creates work folders, plans destination changes, and commits or discards staged results. Failed commit steps trigger rollback. Tests cover naming, conflicts, replacement behavior, rollback, and Finder progress.
Integrate staged extraction and Finder progress
Modules/Sources/Core/ArchiveState.swift, Modules/Sources/Core/Extraction/ExtractionStaging.swift, Modules/Sources/FinderMenu/AppUrl.swift, MacPacker/Core/UrlHandling/AppUrlExtractToFolderHandler.swift, MacPacker/Info.plist, MacPacker/Info_Store.plist, Modules/Tests/CoreTests/ExtractionLeftoverTests.swift
ArchiveState extracts into staging folders, checks cancellation, and commits results. URL handling and extraction type declarations reflect extraction destinations and .macpack packages. Tests cover cancelled, failed, and completed extraction, including smart extraction.
Remove leftovers from earlier runs
Modules/Sources/Core/Extraction/ExtractionStaging.swift, MacPacker/AppDelegate.swift, Modules/Tests/CoreTests/ExtractionLeftoversAfterStopTests.swift
A thread-safe ledger records staging folders for cleanup. At startup, cleanup removes eligible folders from earlier runs. Tests cover cleanup eligibility and ledger updates.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ArchiveState
  participant ExtractionStaging
  participant ArchiveEngine
  participant ExtractionFinderProgress
  participant Destination
  ArchiveState->>ExtractionStaging: Create a work folder
  ArchiveState->>ExtractionFinderProgress: Publish progress for the work folder
  ArchiveState->>ArchiveEngine: Extract into the work folder
  ArchiveEngine-->>ArchiveState: Return extraction progress and result
  ArchiveState->>ExtractionFinderProgress: Forward extraction progress
  ArchiveState->>ExtractionStaging: Commit the staged result
  ExtractionStaging->>Destination: Apply planned moves and replacements
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Possibly related issues

  • sarensw/MacPacker#350: The issue identifies crash or force-quit extraction leftovers; this change removes eligible prior-run .macpack staging folders at startup.
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d6c3e

The change is mergeable with a bounded test gap: add a startup-cleanup test to protect retention of a leftover when another drive takes the original drive’s mount path.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

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- Around line 238-247: In `removeLeftovers`, the `defer` currently removes each
note even when its bookmark cannot be resolved. Move note removal to after
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Comment thread Modules/Sources/Core/Extraction/ExtractionStaging.swift Outdated
Before: at the next start, a note whose folder could not be found was
dropped. That is right for a folder that was deleted, but not for one on
an external drive that simply isn't connected yet: the note was lost,
and the leftover stayed on that drive for good.

Now: when a note's folder can't be found, MacPacker looks at which
volume the note's bookmark names. If that volume isn't mounted, the note
waits for a later start; if it is mounted, the folder is gone and the
note is dropped, as before.
Before: this pull request added its changelog items to the 1.1.0 block
of Config/products/macpacker.json. 1.1.0 was released on 19 October, so
that block takes no new items.

Now: macpacker.json is as on main. The full items are in the pull
request description, for a new version block, as AGENTS.md asks.

The items of sarensw#339, which this builds on, come out too, as they do in
sarensw#339.

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Before: when a leftover's folder could not be found at start, its note
was kept only while its drive was away, and the drive counted as there
when anything was mounted where it had been. Another drive of the same
name, plugged in meanwhile, made the note go, and the leftover stayed
when the right drive came back.

Now: the drive is known by the identifier its bookmark records (its
volume UUID), wherever it is mounted. Only a drive without one, such as
a network share, is still known by where it is mounted.

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125-146: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The changed UUID tests call ExtractionStaging.volumeIsMounted directly with manually supplied identifiers. They do not exercise the startup cleanup caller’s volumeIdentifier(ofBookmark:) extraction or its forwarding into volumeIsMounted.

A regression that stops forwarding the bookmark UUID can therefore pass these tests. Add a focused cleanup-path test that records a bookmark for one volume, supplies a different mounted volume at the same path, and asserts that the leftover note remains.

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