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I just deleted my entire library and redownloaded it. (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A lot of my files were shitty 480p versions of movies from the Napster days. Now they're all 1080p, with a few 720p exceptions (mainly tv series episodes). All in all 500 something files in total. Now just watching uTorrent slowly download them all. Hopefully my VPN keeps the eyes off of me...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking of YOLOing my media collection too, but at the same time I'm scared of downloading lots of things and then losing everything and having to download everything from scratch again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah. For me, the vast majority of my media collection are rips of the blu-rays and DVDs I have in a box in the closet. So recovery is just annoying. There are a few somewhat obscure shows (or shows with massively generic or reused names) that I might never be able to find again but... whatever.

But I definitely have a few porn videos I found on DC++ ten (... twenty?) years ago that I have never been able to find again after accidentally deleting the "Special Textures" folder of my Unreal Tournament directory.