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+Remove the legacy session archive migration from session daemon startup. Setting `PI_WEB_DATA_DIR` only selects where PI WEB-managed state lives; it never moves or copies existing state, and each data directory is independent.
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+You are only affected if you have session archives created before July 2026 in the default `~/.pi-web` data directory and you newly set a custom `PI_WEB_DATA_DIR`. To carry those archives over, stop PI WEB, then copy `archived-sessions.json` and the `archived-sessions/` directory from the old data directory into the new one.