Folder Cleanup Run - 2026-05-22 (Cowork side-by-side)

Run outcome: Pre-flight ABORT, clean no-op. Importance: Medium. Run state: Complete. Open items: 3 decisions for Sam (see MCQs at bottom).

Nothing was moved, quarantined, or deleted. The scheduled task's pre-flight gate fired correctly and the run produced a fact-finding report instead of changes.

What was done

• Pre-flight gate verified the NEVER-TOUCH paths. Three required points are missing, which triggers the designed abort.
• Pass 1 non-destructive scan ran across Desktop, Downloads, Documents (top), user root, and AppData Temp, with SHA-256 hashing of non-protected candidates.
• Pass 2 quarantine was NOT executed. 0 files moved, 0 deleted, 0 registry rows appended.
• Traced the root cause: the folder-cleanup automation was migrated to GitHub Actions on 2026-05-11.
• Wrote the full run report locally: C:\Users\SAguiar\Documents\Codex\folder-cleanup-runs\SUMMARY-2026-05-22-1211.md

Counts

• Candidates flagged: 145 | Quarantined: 0 | Deleted: 0 | Skip-protected: 0
• By category: uuid-named 81, zero-byte-7d 35, numbered-copy 23, tmp-14d 2, old-installer 2, random-noext 2

Top items (none actually moved - Pass 2 skipped)

Since Pass 2 did not run, nothing was quarantined. The genuinely safe subset (~9 items) that a future run could act on with confidence:

1. content hub (1).md - SHA-256 verified duplicate (DownloadsMarkdown Docs)
2. content hub (2).md - SHA-256 verified duplicate
3. content hub (3).md - SHA-256 verified duplicate
4. sidebar-ticker-preview (1).png - SHA-256 verified duplicate (DownloadsImages)
5. Locations Page Mockups - Sam Aguiar (1).html - SHA-256 verified duplicate
6. chromeremotedesktophost.msi - stale installer ~32 days (move, not delete)