Root cause: Claude Code recreates ~/.claude/debug/latest (a dangling
symlink to the current debug session) almost immediately after it is
deleted. The old cleanup ran once before the retry loop, so any retry
after a 2s sleep would hit a freshly recreated symlink.
Fix: move _ssr_mackup_preclean() inside the retry loop so it runs
immediately before each mackup attempt, leaving no window for apps to
recreate problematic files.
Also remove known transient subdirectories by path before the generic
socket/dangling-link sweep:
.claude/debug .cursor/logs .vscode/logs .npm/_logs
Configurable via SSR_MACKUP_PRECLEAN_PATHS (space-separated, $HOME-relative).
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Oliver Surke
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