2025-06-12, 10:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 2025-06-12, 10:53 PM by Scrat134. Edited 2 times in total.)
I had a situation vaguely like this.
https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-bulk-file-deltion-issue
Unfortunately, never did get to the bottom of why it did what it did (as my files were not saved in the cache dirs etc) but as a result, I will never trust Jellyfin with anything other than read only access to my media libraries.
Anecdotally, perusing the forums here, there seems to be a fair bit of this ("its deleted everything and I've no idea why!"), swiftly followed-up with a fair bit of "it'd never do that!" from the team, which is a shame, but it is what it is.
My recommendation as-is, would be providing Jellyfin with read only access is absolutely the way to go.
Glad you had a backup!
https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-bulk-file-deltion-issue
Unfortunately, never did get to the bottom of why it did what it did (as my files were not saved in the cache dirs etc) but as a result, I will never trust Jellyfin with anything other than read only access to my media libraries.
Anecdotally, perusing the forums here, there seems to be a fair bit of this ("its deleted everything and I've no idea why!"), swiftly followed-up with a fair bit of "it'd never do that!" from the team, which is a shame, but it is what it is.
My recommendation as-is, would be providing Jellyfin with read only access is absolutely the way to go.
Glad you had a backup!