3 files changed, 60 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/lib/album-photo-select.source.sh b/src/lib/album-photo-select.source.sh
index 2cb2e88..06190f7 100644
--- a/src/lib/album-photo-select.source.sh
+++ b/src/lib/album-photo-select.source.sh
@@ -20,12 +20,32 @@ album_photo_files() {
         | maybe_shuffle
 }
 
+# Pagination single source of truth (task nr0): how many preview pages a given
+# number of album photos splits into, with at most MAXPREVIEWS photos per page.
+# album_page_records below realises exactly this many records by grouping the
+# actual (shuffled) photo list, and the dry-run plan calls this helper to predict
+# the page count from the incoming-image tally WITHOUT enumerating dist files. So
+# the preview and a real --generate can never disagree on the page count: both
+# express "ceil(image_count / MAXPREVIEWS)" through this one definition. An empty
+# album yields 0 pages.
+album_page_count_for_image_count() {
+    local -ri image_count="$1"; shift
+
+    if (( image_count <= 0 )); then
+        printf '0\n'
+        return
+    fi
+    printf '%d\n' "$(( (image_count + MAXPREVIEWS - 1) / MAXPREVIEWS ))"
+}
+
 # Group the album's photos into pages of at most MAXPREVIEWS, in their final
 # (shuffled/sorted) order. The result is emitted one line per page as a
 # tab-separated record "<page_num>\t<photo>\t<photo>..." so the caller can walk
 # pages without keeping every page in memory at once. Order is fully
 # deterministic (album_photo_files already applies the seeded shuffle), so the
-# downstream parallelism only changes timing, never which photo lands where.
+# downstream parallelism only changes timing, never which photo lands where. The
+# number of records produced here equals album_page_count_for_image_count of the
+# photo count (same MAXPREVIEWS-per-page grouping); see that helper.
 album_page_records() {
     local -r photos_dir="$1"; shift
     local photo
diff --git a/src/lib/album-render.source.sh b/src/lib/album-render.source.sh
index fa8173f..0d0f6a0 100644
--- a/src/lib/album-render.source.sh
+++ b/src/lib/album-render.source.sh
@@ -310,13 +310,42 @@ record_rendered_view_page() {
     last_views_ref["$page"]="$preview"
 }
 
+# Navigation-redirect count single source of truth (task nr0). Every view page
+# gets ALBUM_REDIRECTS_PER_PAGE wrap-around redirect files: the prev stub
+# (N-0.html) and its details twin, plus the next stub (N-(last+1).html) and its
+# details twin -- four files, emitted by render_page_view_redirects below for
+# every page. The LAST page additionally emits ALBUM_REDIRECTS_LAST_PAGE_EXTRA
+# files: the 0-MAXPREVIEWS / 0-MAXPREVIEWS-details entry stubs that bounce into
+# the album. Keep these two numbers in lockstep with render_page_view_redirects;
+# the dry-run plan predicts redirect_count from them via
+# album_redirect_count_for_page_count instead of a magic "*4+2".
+declare -gri ALBUM_REDIRECTS_PER_PAGE=4
+declare -gri ALBUM_REDIRECTS_LAST_PAGE_EXTRA=2
+
+# Total navigation redirects a run produces for a given number of preview pages:
+# four per page plus the last page's extra entry stubs. Zero pages -> zero
+# redirects (render_view_redirects returns early on an empty album). This is the
+# count render_page_view_redirects actually writes across all pages, expressed
+# once so the dry-run plan cannot drift from real generation.
+album_redirect_count_for_page_count() {
+    local -ri page_count="$1"; shift
+
+    if (( page_count <= 0 )); then
+        printf '0\n'
+        return
+    fi
+    printf '%d\n' "$(( page_count * ALBUM_REDIRECTS_PER_PAGE \
+        + ALBUM_REDIRECTS_LAST_PAGE_EXTRA ))"
+}
+
 # Render every navigation redirect for a single view page (the prev/next
 # wrap-around stubs that bounce N-0 / N-(last+1) to the neighbouring page).
 # Each redirect is its own self-contained file (the template overwrites it), so
 # this whole group is safe to run as one independent background job; only the
 # files for distinct pages are produced here. The wrap-around redirects for the
 # very last page (0-MAXPREVIEWS and the loop-to-1 links) are emitted as part of
-# that page's group.
+# that page's group. Per-page / last-page file counts are fixed by
+# ALBUM_REDIRECTS_PER_PAGE / ALBUM_REDIRECTS_LAST_PAGE_EXTRA above.
 render_page_view_redirects() {
     local -r html_dir="$1"; shift
     local -ri page="$1"; shift
diff --git a/src/lib/dry-run.source.sh b/src/lib/dry-run.source.sh
index 75a0655..b02cc23 100644
--- a/src/lib/dry-run.source.sh
+++ b/src/lib/dry-run.source.sh
@@ -30,8 +30,15 @@ collect_dry_run_page_plan() {
     plan_ref["details_count"]=0
 
     if (( image_count > 0 )); then
-        page_count=$(( (image_count + MAXPREVIEWS - 1) / MAXPREVIEWS ))
-        redirect_count=$(( page_count * 4 + 2 ))
+        # Predict the page and redirect counts from the SAME helpers a real
+        # --generate uses (task nr0), so the preview can't drift from the actual
+        # output. album_page_count_for_image_count (album-photo-select) owns the
+        # MAXPREVIEWS-per-page grouping that album_page_records realises, and
+        # album_redirect_count_for_page_count (album-render) owns the per-page +
+        # last-page redirect tally that render_page_view_redirects emits. No dist
+        # files are touched here, so dry-run stays side-effect free.
+        page_count=$(album_page_count_for_image_count "$image_count")
+        redirect_count=$(album_redirect_count_for_page_count "$page_count")
         plan_ref["details_count"]="$image_count"
         plan_ref["page_count"]="$page_count"
         plan_ref["redirect_count"]="$redirect_count"