We use a free-style job in Jenkins with a file parameter to launch a job that reads that file to perform some actions. Sometimes we want to schedule this job (with the help of the Schedule Build plugin) with a file to be launched during the week-end (typically on Sunday). The job in this case can stay up to two days in the waiting queue and when it is launched after waiting we have this error:

FATAL: Cannot invoke "org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileItem.getName()" because "this.this$0.file" is null
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileItem.getName()" because "this.this$0.file" is null
    at hudson.model.FileParameterValue$1.setUp(FileParameterValue.java:160)
    at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.doRun(Build.java:158)
    at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:526)
    at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1900)
    at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:44)
    at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:101)
    at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:442)

We use a Jenkins instance in a Docker container in version 2.387.2.

I did try to search if there is a Jenkins options (in the UI or in the command line) relative to temporary file retention duration but I did not find anything that seems to control this behavior.

Other searches on Google or on StackOverflow didn't gave me any pointers to what to do to avoid this error.