The Storage Location dropdown listed entries like "H2D-1 - AMS A1" next to
real locations, and they could not be got rid of.
They were never locations. Bambuddy used to record which slot a spool was
loaded into by writing that string into Spoolman's location field, and the
writer went away when Storage Location became something the user picks --
but the strings stayed on people's Spoolman spools, and the location sync
imports every distinct one it finds, so they have been coming back in
through the front door ever since. A printer slot is where a spool is
loaded, not where it is put away, and slot assignments already track the
first.
Deleting one by hand did not work either, which is what made this a dead
end rather than an annoyance: the delete route refuses a location that has
spools, and in Spoolman mode it counts them by matching that same string,
so every marker still sitting on a loaded spool answered 409 -- and the two
that were empty were back on the next sync a minute later.
The import now skips them and a one-shot migration clears the ones already
in the catalogue. The shape is defined once and used by both: an optional
printer-name prefix followed by AMS A1, AMS-HT A1 or External Spool, which
is exactly what convert_ams_slot_to_location produced. It stays narrow on
purpose -- "AMS Drybox" and "Spare AMS trays" are somebody's shelf, and
anything the filter swallowed would be a place they could no longer file a
spool under -- so both directions are pinned by tests.
A row is only removed when no spool in this database points at it, by id or
by legacy free-text name, so an internal-mode user who has deliberately
filed spools under such a name keeps it. Spools in Spoolman are neither
consulted nor touched: their location strings are the user's data on the
user's server, and one that still reads "H2D-1 - AMS A1" in the inventory
list is telling the truth about what Spoolman holds. It simply stops being
offered as a destination.
Verified on a live Postgres instance carrying the reported symptom: 13
locations down to 3, all ten markers removed, the two real shelves and one
hand-typed Spoolman name left alone.
maziggy