title: bug: cover preview leaks a temp directory per image status: closed labels: [] created: 2026-09-13 closed:

stageTempImage does an os.MkdirTemp for each cover it stages and only removes the directory on the error path. nothing cleans up afterewards and kitty doesn't delete the file for the t=f medium, so every cover you look at in the picker leaves a temp file until you reboot (to clear out /tmp). annoyingggg. should reuse one directory or clean up when the picker closes.