diff --git a/src/config/sessions/paths.ts b/src/config/sessions/paths.ts
index 50757121fd3..20cb157d046 100644
--- a/src/config/sessions/paths.ts
+++ b/src/config/sessions/paths.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import fs from "node:fs";
 import os from "node:os";
 import path from "node:path";
-import { expandHomePrefix, resolveRequiredHomeDir } from "../../infra/home-dir.js";
+import { resolveRequiredHomeDir } from "../../infra/home-dir.js";
 import { DEFAULT_AGENT_ID, normalizeAgentId } from "../../routing/session-key.js";
 import { normalizeLowercaseStringOrEmpty } from "../../shared/string-coerce.js";
 import { resolveStateDir } from "../paths.js";
@@ -283,38 +283,3 @@ export function resolveSessionFilePath(
   }
   return resolveSessionTranscriptPathInDir(sessionId, sessionsDir);
 }
-
-export function resolveLegacySessionStorePath(
-  store?: string,
-  opts?: { agentId?: string; env?: NodeJS.ProcessEnv },
-) {
-  const agentId = normalizeAgentId(opts?.agentId ?? DEFAULT_AGENT_ID);
-  const env = opts?.env ?? process.env;
-  const homedir = () => resolveRequiredHomeDir(env, os.homedir);
-  if (!store) {
-    return path.join(resolveAgentSessionsDir(agentId, env, homedir), "sessions.json");
-  }
-  if (store.includes("{agentId}")) {
-    const expanded = store.replaceAll("{agentId}", agentId);
-    if (expanded.startsWith("~")) {
-      return path.resolve(
-        expandHomePrefix(expanded, {
-          home: resolveRequiredHomeDir(env, homedir),
-          env,
-          homedir,
-        }),
-      );
-    }
-    return path.resolve(expanded);
-  }
-  if (store.startsWith("~")) {
-    return path.resolve(
-      expandHomePrefix(store, {
-        home: resolveRequiredHomeDir(env, homedir),
-        env,
-        homedir,
-      }),
-    );
-  }
-  return path.resolve(store);
-}
diff --git a/src/config/sessions/store-backend.sqlite.test.ts b/src/config/sessions/store-backend.sqlite.test.ts
index 724cc90b931..4ee8843fdf9 100644
--- a/src/config/sessions/store-backend.sqlite.test.ts
+++ b/src/config/sessions/store-backend.sqlite.test.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { afterEach, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 import { writeTextAtomic } from "../../infra/json-files.js";
 import { closeOpenClawAgentDatabasesForTest } from "../../state/openclaw-agent-db.js";
 import { closeOpenClawStateDatabaseForTest } from "../../state/openclaw-state-db.js";
-import { resolveLegacySessionStorePath } from "./paths.js";
+import { resolveSessionTranscriptsDirForAgent } from "./paths.js";
 import {
   importJsonSessionStoreToSqlite,
   loadSqliteSessionEntries,
@@ -26,6 +26,16 @@ function createTempDir(): string {
   return fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "openclaw-sqlite-session-store-"));
 }
 
+function resolveLegacySessionJsonFixturePath(params: {
+  agentId: string;
+  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv;
+}): string {
+  return path.join(
+    resolveSessionTranscriptsDirForAgent(params.agentId, params.env),
+    "sessions.json",
+  );
+}
+
 afterEach(() => {
   closeOpenClawAgentDatabasesForTest();
   closeOpenClawStateDatabaseForTest();
@@ -113,7 +123,7 @@ describe("SQLite session store backend", () => {
   it("routes the production session row API through SQLite", () => {
     const stateDir = createTempDir();
     const env = { OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR: stateDir };
-    const storePath = resolveLegacySessionStorePath(undefined, {
+    const storePath = resolveLegacySessionJsonFixturePath({
       agentId: "ops",
       env,
     });
@@ -226,7 +236,7 @@ describe("SQLite session store backend", () => {
   it("uses SQLite by default for canonical per-agent session rows", () => {
     const stateDir = createTempDir();
     const env = { OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR: stateDir };
-    const storePath = resolveLegacySessionStorePath(undefined, {
+    const storePath = resolveLegacySessionJsonFixturePath({
       agentId: "ops",
       env,
     });
@@ -247,7 +257,7 @@ describe("SQLite session store backend", () => {
   it("does not import a legacy canonical sessions.json on first SQLite open", async () => {
     const stateDir = createTempDir();
     process.env.OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR = stateDir;
-    const storePath = resolveLegacySessionStorePath(undefined, {
+    const storePath = resolveLegacySessionJsonFixturePath({
       agentId: "ops",
       env: process.env,
     });