Deleted files on ssd cache removed all Shares, also

[justcurious1]

New to Unraid. Files would not move from cache to share. A help note indicated that if there are same files on cache and share Mover would not work so I deleted everything from cache using Dynamix File Manager and all shares were deleted. The cache still shows that there is data on the cache. This is still in experimental mode as I'm trying to see if I can use UNRaid as a remote video storage editor (not working well at all). 

It seems all I'm left to do is hit New Config. Thanks.

[itimpi]

In normal operation a file only exists at one place, and since any pool is also part of any share deleting them from there will delete them from the share view as well.

 

You are likely to get better informed feedback if you attach your system’s diagnostics zip file to your next post in this thread, and mention the paths on the cache of some files that you think should move and are not being moved.

[justcurious1]

Since I deleted the shares I don't know the paths. diagnostic file enclosed. I think I've really made a mess of it. The drives show gigs of data but there is nothing on them.

tower-diagnostics-20230310-1532.zip

[itimpi]

According to your diagnostics you have deleted all your data except a bit belonging to the share anonymised as v————-g that has data on disk1.    
 

The used space will never go to zero as there is an overhead of something like 1% or more used to hold the file system structures corresponding to an empty file system.

[justcurious1]

So that's pretty dangerous. I was looking at only the files on the cache, or so I thought. That's it then, all files are gone. The share you refer to was my trying to recreate the deleted share.

Edited March 10, 2023 by justcurious1

[Kilrah]

Whenever you look at something in /mnt/user that's the merge of all drives. If you want to only touch what's on the cache then you have to navigate to /mnt/cache.

[itimpi]

Just now, justcurious1 said:

So that's pretty dangerous. I was looking at only the files on the cache, or so I thought. That's it then, all files are gone. 

Yes.   You were looking at the cache but am guessing that the files had not yet been moved to the array so you were deleting the only copy.   

[justcurious1]

3 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Whenever you look at something in /mnt/user that's the merge of all drives. If you want to only touch what's on the cache then you have to navigate to /mnt/cache.

Okay, that's depressing. At least that mystery is 'solved'. Thanks.