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Deleting Orphan Files

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start with the related report in issue #2059, especially the linked comment, then locate the orphan-file deletion implementation and its existing tests; no file or test is named here. Check which orphan files are missed and reproduce the behavior before assessing a fix. Done means the reported orphan files are deleted and regression coverage confirms the behavior.

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Description

It looks like deleting orphan files feature does not delete all orphan files. A user reported this here: #2059

This should be checked. There is some mentioned in this comment that could help improve this feature.
https://github.com/codalab/codabench/issues/2059#issuecomment-4077961067

Dominant language
Python
Stars
181
Forks
80
Avg merge
2d 17h
Merged PRs (30d)
30

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