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I wish Kodi could host the library from outside your home. So I could be at a friends house, and I just log in to my library from his house, and we watch season 6, episode 14 of the simpsons. Random episode, but whatever. You get my point.
Instead, I tried setting up JellyFin, and I couldn't get it to work. So I said "Fuck it. I'll delete this and try from scratch, and reinstall JellyFin."
Instead, it deleted 32 terabytes of videos. It deleted the "media" folder, which I set as JellyFins home directory. Every dvd I ripped, every tv show, every movie, every wrestling show, every comedy special. All of it. Gone.
Luckily I have a backup, but that was 2 years ago, and I'm never even home enough to WATCH the stuff, let alone try to restore these files one by one which took literal decades to assemble.
Somewhere is a folder called "N-Gage videos". Which is episodes of TV shows that in 2003 I formatted to fit on an N-gage screen size. Useless now, but it shows how old some of that collection is.
There are ways to recover deleted files, at least partially. Especially if all you did was remove the directory and not the files themselves.
Re-downloading 32TB would take a while but you'll probably download it faster than you can watch it. Usenet downloads are typically faster than torrenting.
Plex is much easier to setup than Jellyfin and much more user-friendly in general, though it's not free for some of the more useful features like watching from outside your home.
Hate to say it but deleting files when you mean to delete a program/docker container/whatever is definitely a skill issue...
It asked me "Would you like to remove this path?" I said yes, thinking it meant the program using that path within the program. No, it meant delete the whole damn folder.