The Photo model previously had two near-identical "negative culling"
states: is_rejected (a flag) and is_trashed (a flag plus a file move).
Lightroom users typically use one or the other, never both, and the
file-move semantics of the old trash made it harder to undo. Merging
into a single soft is_trashed flag — file stays on disk, restore is a
flag flip, permanent deletion still happens via DELETE /trash/empty.
Backend
- Drop is_rejected from PhotoBase, PhotoResponse, PhotoUpdate, the
list endpoint filter, and the bulk-action 'reject' branch.
- Add is_trashed to PhotoUpdate so the PATCH path can set it.
- Drop is_rejected Column declaration from the SQLAlchemy model. The
legacy DB column may persist on existing installs but is no longer
read or written; SQLAlchemy ignores extra columns.
- Rewrite DELETE /photos/{id} as a soft trash: just sets is_trashed=
true and trashed_at=now, no shutil.move. Permanent deletion still
goes through the trash router.
Frontend
- Photo TS type drops is_rejected, gains is_trashed.
- X keyboard shortcut now sets is_trashed=true (was is_rejected); U
clears both is_picked and is_trashed.
- RightSidebar Reject button → Trash button (Trash2 icon).
- PhotoThumbnail flag overlay shows Trash2 icon for trashed photos
instead of an X for rejected.
- KeyboardHints relabels X from "Reject" to "Trash".
- filterStore FlagFilter renames 'rejected' → 'trashed'; the params
builder now sends is_trashed=true for the trashed filter (the list
endpoint defaults to hiding trashed photos otherwise).
- FilterBar dropdown / URL sync allow-list updated accordingly.
No data migration: existing rejected photos remain as-is (flag stale)
and effectively become unflagged in the new model. Re-trash from the
UI to bring them into the new state.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>