hi, I did a refresh in my plex libraries. And i saw the movies dissapearing one after another. All the folders are deleted. I did a upgrade 2 days ago. Did someone ever have that situation? I am running the plex server on Ubuntu 18.04 thanks ManuzetaServer Version 1.11.0.1215-1d8c460c Player Ve…

Q1: are the files actually gone/deleted from your file system or did you just lose their records within Plex? Keep in mind… Plex won’t delete files. There’s 2 exceptions but those require a specific manual triggering of a deletion). If Plex no longer has access to your files (e.g. because a mount…

the files are gone from my file system. It’s a ZFS array.

Do you have any other tools that could interfere with your files? I’ve been seeing a number of cases where users had a set of tools loading and processing their media that could result in files being deleted. Plex itself is usually not involved in this… (unless you e.g. enable Allow deleting files …

no, i did not change any settings. And the files are only used by Plex. “Allow deleting files” was enabled.

i don’t understand what happened

Let’s check the obvious stuff first… on a Linux setup, Plex is using a dedicated local user (plex). Does that user have access to your ZFS array? How do you mount the ZFS array in your server?

it was only me. I uploaded movies and i refreshed the libraries. It is a NFS mounted share Zpool

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Plex deleted all the files and folders while refreshing libraries

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