(2021-03-03, 20:04)AnonTester Wrote: @Alexander78 While very frustrating if your movies are actually gone, it is extremely unlikely that this addon did this. Not only does it ask for confirmation to delete by default and checks for the amount of files/folders and asks for confirmation again if it would delete more than 10 files, but it's also not designed to do this at all. It runs after a movie or episode was played and not on its own.
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See this post how to find your logs/debug logs and provide meaningful information for anyone to be able to help you.
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=233369
Thanks for the response, I never did technically figure out what exactly went wrong, but as far as I could tell I did not change anything, not one thing, about my Kodi set up; that I had been running every single day for months on end without a hitch, other than switching from Delete After Watching to After Watch, which is why my first instinct was to blame the only change I made, especially in regards to the circumstances of the deletion (see below).
I did however want to come back and go through your suggestions, even if for cathartic reasons alone:
Quote:It is a lot more likely that one of the following things happened:
- your movies are on a remote disk or network share and the disk or share is not mounted (kodi just doesn't see them)
They were on an external HDD, which is plugged via USB to my desktop, and I could still see all my TV Shows (in explorer), just the Movies folder was now inexplicably empty (with nothing transferred to the trash, assuming it had been done manually). It was quite the opposite in fact, as I could see the movies in Kodi and when I went to watch a movie it suggested "file no longer available, remove from library ?" at which point I was like "That's weird I just downloaded it", and upon inspection of the HDD through explorer saw that the movies folder was completely emptied of all files and folders.
Quote:- OS update interferes with mounting remote disk or network share (kodi just doesn't see them)
See above: external HDD plugged in to desktop, movies still show in Kodi, but files gone from HDD.
Quote:- new user or profile created in kodi with empty database
Nope, files actually gone.
Quote:- the remote disk died (movies actually gone)
Nope, two HDD set up in mirror, files gone from both sadly.
Quote:- the kodi database got corrupted so the movies are still there but kodi doesn't know about them any longer
Nope, files actually gone.
Quote:- kodi database in mysql and mysql not started or accessible for some reason
Same as above
Quote:- accidental deletion of files by someone or something with access to the source (files actually gone if there's no backup or recycle bin or similar)
It can't be someone (only I had access to the computer and files) because as soon as I found out, I checked the recycle bin and there was nothing there, hence my first suspicion of it being done by a program (the likes of DAW and AW), and seeing as the entire set up was running flawlessly until I switch from DAW to AW ... I assumed it was AW.
At the end of the day I guess I'll never truly know, but it's kinda eating away at me as to what could have caused this. The only sad positive is that since Kodi still shows the movies until I "clean library" I at least have a visual list of what I need to "aquire" again; Thing is, a lot of these movies were 4K versions that just become impossible to find after all X amount of time goes by. Others were foreign movies that already lacked from serious "sources" back when they were popular ... but now ? Just gone, other than 480p versions :\