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globalSettings.yml

@@ -9,23 +9,15 @@ courses:
     name: UX
   - path: ./1425/2025-fall-alex/modules/
     name: "1425"
-  - path: ./3840_Telemetry/2025_spring_alex/modules/
-    name: Telem and Ops
   - path: ./4850_AdvancedFE/2026-spring-alex/modules
     name: Adv Frontend Spring
-  - path: ./1400/2025_spring_alex/modules/
-    name: 1400-old
   - path: ./1400/2026_spring_alex/modules
     name: "1400"
-  - path: ./1405/2025_spring_alex/
-    name: 1405 old
   - path: ./1405/2026_spring_alex
     name: "1405"
   - path: ./1810/2026-spring-alex/modules
     name: Web Intro Spring
   - path: ./3840_Telemetry/2026_spring_alex
     name: Telem and Ops New
-  - path: ./4620_Distributed/2025Spring/modules/
-    name: distributed-old
   - path: ./4620_Distributed/2026-spring-alex/modules
     name: Distributed

src/app/addCourse/AddCourseToGlobalSettingsForm.tsx

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import {
 } from "@/features/local/course/localCourseSettings";
 import { useCourseListInTermQuery } from "@/features/canvas/hooks/canvasCourseHooks";
 import { useCanvasTermsQuery } from "@/features/canvas/hooks/canvasHooks";
+import { useDirectoryExistsQuery } from "@/features/local/utils/storageDirectoryHooks";
 
 const sampleCompose = `services:
   canvas_manager:
@@ -62,7 +63,6 @@ export default function AddNewCourseToGlobalSettingsForm() {
   const formIsComplete =
     selectedTerm && selectedCanvasCourse && selectedDirectory;
 
-
   return (
     <div>
       <ButtonSelect
@@ -95,7 +95,12 @@ export default function AddNewCourseToGlobalSettingsForm() {
           disabled={!formIsComplete || createCourse.isPending}
           onClick={async () => {
             if (formIsComplete) {
-              console.log("Creating course with settings:", selectedDirectory, "old course", courseToImport);
+              console.log(
+                "Creating course with settings:",
+                selectedDirectory,
+                "old course",
+                courseToImport
+              );
               const newSettings: LocalCourseSettings = courseToImport
                 ? {
                     ...courseToImport,
@@ -145,11 +150,6 @@ export default function AddNewCourseToGlobalSettingsForm() {
         </button>
       </div>
       {createCourse.isPending && <Spinner />}
-
-      {/* <pre>
-        <div>Example docker compose</div>
-        <code className="language-yml">{sampleCompose}</code>
-      </pre> */}
     </div>
   );
 }
@@ -185,6 +185,8 @@ function OtherSettings({
     useCourseListInTermQuery(selectedTerm.id);
   const { data: allSettings } = useLocalCoursesSettingsQuery();
   const [directory, setDirectory] = useState("./");
+  const { data: directoryExists, isLoading: directoryExistsLoading } =
+    useDirectoryExistsQuery(directory);
 
   const populatedCanvasCourseIds = allSettings?.map((s) => s.canvasId) ?? [];
   const availableCourses =
@@ -224,6 +226,15 @@ function OtherSettings({
         setLastTypedValue={setSelectedDirectory}
         label={"Storage Folder"}
       />
+      <div className="text-center mt-2 min-h-6">
+        {directoryExistsLoading && <Spinner />}
+        {!directoryExistsLoading && directoryExists && (
+          <div className="text-red-300">Directory must be a new folder</div>
+        )}
+        {!directoryExistsLoading && directoryExists === false && (
+          <div className="text-green-300">✓ New folder</div>
+        )}
+      </div>
       <br />
       <div className="flex justify-center">
         <DayOfWeekInput

src/app/course/[courseName]/calendar/CalendarMonth.tsx

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ export const CalendarMonth = ({ month }: { month: CalendarMonthModel }) => {
               className={
                 "text-2xl transition-all duration-500 " +
                 "hover:text-slate-50 underline hover:scale-105 " +
-                "flex "
+                "flex cursor-pointer"
               }
               onClick={() => setIsExpanded((e) => !e)}
               role="button"

src/features/local/utils/directoriesRouter.ts

@@ -25,4 +25,13 @@ export const directoriesRouter = router({
     .query(async ({ input: { folderPath } }) => {
       return await fileStorageService.settings.folderIsCourse(folderPath);
     }),
+  directoryExists: publicProcedure
+    .input(
+      z.object({
+        relativePath: z.string(),
+      })
+    )
+    .query(async ({ input: { relativePath } }) => {
+      return await fileStorageService.directoryExists(relativePath);
+    }),
 });

src/features/local/utils/fileStorageService.ts

@@ -72,4 +72,15 @@ export const fileStorageService = {
     }
     return { files, folders };
   },
+
+  async directoryExists(relativePath: string): Promise<boolean> {
+    const fullPath = path.join(basePath, relativePath);
+    // Security: ensure fullPath is inside basePath
+    const resolvedBase = path.resolve(basePath);
+    const resolvedFull = path.resolve(fullPath);
+    if (!resolvedFull.startsWith(resolvedBase)) {
+      return false;
+    }
+    return await directoryOrFileExists(fullPath);
+  },
 };

src/features/local/utils/storageDirectoryHooks.ts

@@ -23,3 +23,10 @@ export const useDirectoryIsCourseQuery = (folderPath: string) => {
     trpc.directories.directoryIsCourse.queryOptions({ folderPath })
   );
 };
+
+export const useDirectoryExistsQuery = (relativePath: string) => {
+  const trpc = useTRPC();
+  return useQuery(
+    trpc.directories.directoryExists.queryOptions({ relativePath })
+  );
+};