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

Storage manager is off???

You know those time when Windows is telling you: "Don't worry, I won't touch your files"?
Welp...

@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!)

@AlgoRythm duh, you only have 220.24GB free, they were garbage collected to restore some space.

@NoMad They were videos and I even watched half of them. This is just bizarre and frustrating.

@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.

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?

@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.

@AlgoRythm my theory was [and somehow still is] a read-only filesystem.

@netikras Then how could I download the files to it, which would require writing?

@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

@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.

@AlgoRythm you do not know when the error happened :) if it happened...

@theKarlisK pulled <-- before or after? 😁

@theKarlisK It's interesting to see what humans can do under stress (except when the consequences affect you, that is).

@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

So don’t download them to the RAM disk I guess