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+'use strict';
+
+const path = require('path');
+const fs = require('fs').promises;
+const nconf = require('nconf');
+
+const db = require('../../database');
+const batch = require('../../batch');
+const file = require('../../file');
+
+module.exports = {
+	name: 'Clean up leftover topic thumb sorted sets and files for since-purged topics',
+	timestamp: Date.UTC(2022, 1, 7),
+	method: async function () {
+		const { progress } = this;
+		const nextTid = await db.getObjectField('global', 'nextTid');
+		const tids = [];
+		for (let x = 1; x < nextTid; x++) {
+			tids.push(x);
+		}
+
+		const purgedTids = (await db.isSortedSetMembers('topics:tid', tids))
+			.map((exists, idx) => (exists ? false : tids[idx]))
+			.filter(Boolean);
+
+		const affectedTids = (await db.exists(purgedTids.map(tid => `topic:${tid}:thumbs`)))
+			.map((exists, idx) => (exists ? purgedTids[idx] : false))
+			.filter(Boolean);
+
+		progress.total = affectedTids.length;
+
+		await batch.processArray(affectedTids, async (tids) => {
+			await Promise.all(tids.map(async (tid) => {
+				const relativePaths = await db.getSortedSetMembers(`topic:${tid}:thumbs`);
+				const absolutePaths = relativePaths.map(relativePath => path.join(nconf.get('upload_path'), relativePath));
+
+				await Promise.all(absolutePaths.map(async (absolutePath) => {
+					const exists = await file.exists(absolutePath);
+					if (exists) {
+						await fs.unlink(absolutePath);
+					}
+				}));
+				await db.delete(`topic:${tid}:thumbs`);
+				progress.incr();
+			}));
+		}, {
+			progress,
+			batch: 100,
+		});
+	},
+};