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Misbehavior/Bug in Cleanup - Kubwa - 2025-07-16
When starting Jellyfin, per default the job "Cleanup collections and playlists" is being started. If the library path is not accessible at this time, all playlists are being wiped. This is a bug.
Jellyfin should check the availability of the library folder. If the entire library folder is inaccessible at that time, nothing should be cleaned up. When the entire library folder is gone, its unintentional and should NOT result in wiping the entire playlists and collections for all users!
When having your library on a network share, disable automatic library scans and especially the cleanup jobs until these dangerous behaviors have being fixed.
RE: Misbehavior/Bug in Cleanup - theguymadmax - 2025-07-16
Known issue: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/12734
There are plans to fix this in the future. But involves a rework of playlists and collections.
In the meantime, delete the at-startup trigger in the Clean up collections and playlists scheduled tasks (located in the dashboard).