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Cleanup skip message names the setting at fault

You'll notice
Useful2 Signal1
Sessions

When transcript cleanup skips, it now names the retention setting that failed validation.

cleanupPeriodDays
What

When transcript cleanup bails because settings failed validation, the message now names which retention key was involved instead of always saying cleanupPeriodDays.

Details
  • The guard loops over both retention keys.
  • desktopSessionCleanupPeriodDays is only checked against user settings and flag settings as sources.
Evidence

Skipping cleanup: settings have validation errors but

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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