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What the fuck happened? Yesterday I spent about an hour downloading ~40 files and after a restart they disappeared???

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  • 4
    Storage manager is off???
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    @NoMad I've restarted three times since I noticed the wayward files.... I've opened every app that could possibly find them. My last hope is to inspect via USB when I get home but I have little hope.

    They're just gone. Not in recently deleted, nothing. No trace of them. As if someone handed me my phone from 24 hours ago (except it still has a screenshot of the files after download, so I have proof!)
  • 3
    @AlgoRythm duh, you only have 220.24GB free, they were garbage collected to restore some space.
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    @NoMad They were videos and I even watched half of them. This is just bizarre and frustrating.
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    @NoMad That's the first thing I found, hence the screenshot. There's no reason it should have cleaned those files since it is off.
  • 0
    did you by any chance download them on to an SD card rather than internal storage? That would explain.

    If not -- try downloading something else and restarting the device again. Did the file persist this time?
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    @netikras I don't have an SD card

    I tried that and yes, it did persist.

    Not only is it fucking weird but it's also annoying. That took me a damn hour man.
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    @AlgoRythm my theory was [and somehow still is] a read-only filesystem.
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    @netikras Then how could I download the files to it, which would require writing?
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    @AlgoRythm vfs caching layer maybe?

    How big are we talking about?

    Could also be a corrupt mountpoint.. If the target dir was not mounted, you wrote files to your block main device. On-boot the mount target could have a rule to be wiped to not hide any data by a mountpoint.

    Like..

    touch /mnt/aa
    ls -l /mnt/aa #success
    mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
    ls -l /mnt/aa #fail
    umount /mnt
    ls -l /mnt/aa #success
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    @netikras I know the emulated storage solution on mobile devices is weird but I don't think there's any room for mounting errors like that. And if so I would probably lose more than just yesterday's videos.
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    @AlgoRythm you do not know when the error happened :) if it happened...
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    @theKarlisK pulled <-- before or after? 😁
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    @theKarlisK that's why Windows has the "Eject safely" option, it waits until all I/O is done and only then unmounts the device ^^

    Some people just never bother making it a habit to use it
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    So don’t download them to the RAM disk I guess
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