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Running `python scripts/export_catalog.py` on a deployed site died with 1045 "Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'", naming a user that site does not have. Nothing loads .env for a plain script run. wsgi.py calls load_dotenv() for the served app and the flask CLI loads .env for itself, so both reach the real database; a bare `python scripts/...` gets neither. DATABASE_URL then stays unset, FLASK_ENV defaults to development, and config.py falls back to a hardcoded root@localhost URL. The read-only failure above is the harmless version. Six of these seven scripts WRITE - backfill, reclassify, retype, collapse, refile, import - and on any box where those fallback root credentials happen to resolve, they would have silently rewritten the wrong database with no error at all. That is also why this survived: the dev .env points at root, so the fallback matched what the developer expected and nothing ever looked wrong here. All seven now load .env from the repo root, resolved from __file__ rather than the working directory, since these are run by hand during a deployment and rarely from the repo root. tests/test_maintenance_scripts.py pins it for any future script: every script that calls create_app must call load_dotenv, before create_app rather than after it, and with an explicit path rather than a cwd-relative search.
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