Discard pile silently lost when switching locations #108

Latest Version

• I am using the latest version of Radix.

Affected Area

Other

Summary

I'm filing this as a bug, but it's really a critical usability problem.
The issue is that I've been meticulously assembling a Discard Pile from one location, e.g. Macintosh HD. And then I switched to Home on the left Smart locations panel, thinking, that it's just a quick way of navigating between locations on the FS. But my Discard Pile was silently cleared!

All my clean markup was lost without a warning and I've wasted my time and have to redo this again. With how beautiful and though-out this app is, one would think that such a basic UX scenario is covered.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Radix
2. Perform a full scan of all locations (?)
3. Add a bunch of files to the Discard Pile while e.g. Macintosh HD is active on the left Smart Locations panel.
4. Click a different "Smart location", e.g. Home on the left panel.

Actual Behavior

Discard Pile is now empty, all the previously marked directories/files are unchanged.

Expected Behavior

There are a couple of ways to handle this. Some of them are:

• Option 1. Discard pile retains its state when switching location
• Option 2. A warning is given that the pile will be cleared, where No/Cancel cancels the location switch and discard pile is kept.

Frequency

Every time

Scan Target

None

Radix Version

1.8.0 (14)

macOS Version

macOS 27.0.1

Logs, Crash Report, Screenshots, or Diagnostics

Regression

No response