Most of my settings and data just vanished off the face of the planet
Buckle in it’s a bit of a long one
For some context: last week I had to roll back my kernel to 7.0.1 and then update it to 7.0.3 since an update messed my system up. No issues since and I downloaded like 300g worth of games since then and things have been fine. Monday I even downloaded themes and personalised my desktop since I thought everything was finally stable.
So today I had just finished installing emudeck and I had opened dolphin to check that it was all good when I realised my folder icons had all gone back to the kde default.
Then I noticed all of my theme/personalisation was gone except for my wallpaper. Went into system settings to change it back and the file wasn’t there. So then I checked my downloads folder (mind you I had been in and out of it for the past hour+ as I had also spent time downloading and compiling mangohud, vbasalt and optiscaler to make up goverlay so I was very familiar with it) and the &#%{#* thing is empty!
So I go checking through my home subvolume and notice folders I manually created are also missing. Panicked and rebooted and now pretty much all of my data is gone.
However! I have since realised that:
a) my system seems to have gone back to my 7.0.3 era even though the bootloader and system stats say I’m running 7.0.5.1
b) a lot of the file paths that I created are there but the folders are either flat out empty or just full of empty documents.
c) flatpaks that I have installed still show up and seem to run e.g. I have coolercontrol running on boot and that’s still working fine but I only installed cc on Monday.
d) kwallet no longer recognises my password which is weird bc I did have one set at the rollback point
e) all my opera settings/history is gone
Honestly I just cried for about an hour. I’ve had issues with tumbleweed and this just put me over the top. I know my data is still there as the partitioner shows that I’ve got 323g used of my drive which is what it was this morning. I just don’t know what to do. The yast error log only shows me entries since the last boot so I don’t even know where to begin. I realise this is probs none of the info you might need but I really don’t know what to do here.
Will upload anything needed. I just can’t do another fresh install or redownload all my games it took me 11hours on and off to download cyberpunk 2077