I noticed a movie that I never downloaded somehow showed up in Jellyfin. I searched for the file and couldn’t find it anywhere so I clicked remove media and it deleted every movie I had downloaded. I was luckily able to recover everything but I’m kind of shaken. It deleted the entire movies folder I had.

  • seahorse [Ohio]@midwest.socialOP
    2·
    2 years ago

    I right-clicked on that specific movie’s tile from the home page and clicked “Delete media”. My file system is set up like /data/media/movies/movie_title_dir/movie_file and next thing I know I do ls in the terminal and the movie directory was gone.

    • krolden
      5·
      2 years ago

      Hmmm. I’m thinking maybe that phantom movie that was in your jf library was originally not in it’s own movie directory but in the root of your movies folder. It’s maybe possible that jellyfin then deleted the entire root directory of that movie when you hit delete, which would be your root movies folder.

      Never heard of this happening before but it’s conceivably possible. Was the entire movie directory deleted or just everything inside it?