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Image move job not found: {job_id}

Error message

Image move job not found: {job_id}

What it means

get_job looks up an image move job by id in image_subfolder_move_jobs; if no row matches, it raises ValueError('Image move job not found: {job_id}'). It signals the caller passed a job id that does not exist (or no longer exists) in the database.

Source

Thrown at invokeai/app/services/image_moves/image_moves_default.py:710

        with self._db.transaction() as cursor:
            cursor.execute(
                "UPDATE image_subfolder_move_jobs SET state = 'error', error_message = ? WHERE id = ?;",
                (message, job_id),
            )
            cursor.execute(
                "UPDATE image_subfolder_move_items SET state = 'error', error_message = ? WHERE job_id = ?;",
                (message, job_id),
            )

    def get_job(self, job_id: int) -> ImageMoveJob:
        with self._db.transaction() as cursor:
            cursor.execute(
                "SELECT id, state, error_message FROM image_subfolder_move_jobs WHERE id = ?;",
                (job_id,),
            )
            row = cursor.fetchone()
        if row is None:
            raise ValueError(f"Image move job not found: {job_id}")
        return ImageMoveJob(
            id=cast(int, row["id"]), state=cast(MoveJobState, row["state"]), error_message=row["error_message"]
        )

    def get_latest_job(self) -> ImageMoveJob | None:
        with self._db.transaction() as cursor:
            cursor.execute(
                """--sql
                SELECT id, state, error_message
                FROM image_subfolder_move_jobs
                ORDER BY id DESC
                LIMIT 1;
                """
            )
            row = cursor.fetchone()
        if row is None:
            return None
        return ImageMoveJob(

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Solutions

1. Call get_latest_job() to see whether any move job exists and use its id.
2. Verify you are querying the same invokeai.db the job was created against (check the configured database path).
3. List existing jobs with SELECT id, state FROM image_subfolder_move_jobs; and pick a valid id.
4. Handle the ValueError in caller code when the job may legitimately not exist (e.g. after DB reset).

Example fix

// before
job = move_service.get_job(42)  # ValueError if absent
// after
job = move_service.get_latest_job()
if job is None:
    print("no move jobs recorded")
else:
    job = move_service.get_job(job.id)

def job_exists(db_path: str, job_id: int) -> bool:
    import sqlite3
    con = sqlite3.connect(db_path)
    row = con.execute("SELECT 1 FROM image_subfolder_move_jobs WHERE id=?", (job_id,)).fetchone()
    return row is not None

def is_valid_job(job) -> bool:
    return job is not None and isinstance(getattr(job, 'id', None), int)

try:
    job = service.get_job(job_id)
except ValueError as e:
    if "Image move job not found" in str(e):
        job = service.get_latest_job()  # fall back to most recent

When it happens

Trigger: Calling get_job(job_id) with an id from another/older database, an id for a job that was deleted, a fabricated id (e.g. 0 or 1 on a fresh DB), or using a job id after the DB file was reset/recreated.

Common situations: Storing a job id across app reinstalls or DB migrations; querying a test DB while the id came from a dev DB; calling recovery APIs with an id hardcoded from a tutorial.

Understand the failure class

Background: Record Not Found Errors: "not found", RecordNotFound, and "was not found" — what they mean and how to fix them — this error's family across 28 libraries.

Related errors

• Image move job {job_id} has no items
• Image move job {job_id} failed commit validation
• Unknown image subfolder strategy: {strategy}
• ImageRecordNotFoundException
• User {user_id} not found

AI-assisted analysis of invoke-ai/InvokeAI@0b6a024f2f (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/6ec8903766f702b2. Report an issue: GitHub.