I just went to watch a movie and my server said it wasn’t there, so I went and check the PC folders and all of my movies are gone. Not in any of the recycling bins, not anywhere, just gone. What would have caused this? How do I stop it from happening again? It’s been working fine for months then this just happened.
Do any of your plex users have the permissions required to delete files?
Radarr doesn’t delete video files unless replacing them with a new one, or commanded to delete them. It will delete related metadata files like images, subtitles, and nfo when it thinks a video file has been deleted though.
Your logs repeat with root folder ‘E:/Movies’ was not found while trying to import new media, but doesn’t mention anything else. Does that folder still exist, or was it also deleted? All your movies, or just some? Were other libraries modified? (tv shows)
Radarr has a setting which will delete files when a movie becomes unmonitored. By any chance did you recently unmonitor everything or make a change to whole directory like rescanning ?
I did unmonitor everything recently. For fuck sakes didn’t know it did that. Just thought what’s the point in monitoring the movies if they’re all how I want them. Apparently I fucked myself.
Second guessing myself now but I remember finding such a setting (in addition to the reverse… Unmonitoring if deleted from disk), and thought it sounded dangerous… but it was disabled by default from memory.
One other thing is that Radarr has a recycle bin… I think 7 days retention by default. I’ve never checked it myself but maybe you can get your stuff back from there?
Of course if it’s empty then I guess Radarr didn’t delete them.
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