Curate -> Export not working

[lstein]

In the Dataset Curate panel, there is a button marked "Export Dataset". However, after selecting images and pushing this button, I get the browser dialogue message "Exported undefined files" but nothing seems to have exported.

[lstein]

@claude please take a look at this. The Export button is supposed to copy the selected images into the designated folder, but does not seem to do that correctly. The CSV export, on the other hand, is working as expected.

[claude]

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[lstein]

@claude please take a look at this issue.

[claude]

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Fix for Export Dataset Bug

Three bugs were working together to break the Export Dataset button:

Bug 1 — Wrong check_album_lock() call (backend)
export_dataset called check_album_lock() with no argument. This blocks all exports whenever PHOTOMAP_ALBUM_LOCKED is set — even for allowed albums. Export is not a destructive album-management operation; the correct per-album lock check was already being done inside validate_album_exists() called immediately after. The no-arg call was removed.

Bug 2 — Over-restrictive destination path check (backend)
The endpoint required the export destination to be inside Path.home(). Users exporting to external drives or network mounts (e.g. /Volumes/…, /mnt/…) received a silent 400 error. Source-path security is already handled by validate_image_access(); there's no need to restrict the destination. The is_within_base_dir check was removed.

Bug 3 — Missing response.ok check (frontend)
The export handler called response.json() and then accessed data.exported without checking response.ok. Any server-side error returns {"detail": "..."} — no exported field — so the dialog read "Exported undefined files" with no indication of what went wrong. A proper error-check was added to surface the server's error message.

Changes

• photomap/backend/routers/curation.py — removed check_album_lock() (no-arg) and is_within_base_dir restriction from export_dataset
• photomap/frontend/static/javascript/curation.js — added response.ok check in export handler; meaningful error now shown on failure
• tests/backend/test_curation.py — removed test_export_path_traversal_protection (tested the now-removed restriction); updated test_export_endpoint and test_export_nonexistent_files to use pytest's tmp_path instead of requiring dir=Path.home()

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