1) Client now unaware of downloaded videos and list of channels I was following 2) Question about ports

Hi,

Two matters here (as a novice I’m not sure I could post twice, better pack the two subjects in one post).

1

Client suddenly NOT showing my playlists (which allowed me to keep track of the videos I had downloaded and I was hopefully contributing to serve to other users) nor the list of channels I was following.

I’m on Linux.

I have recently decided to run the client on my main PC (although having it built for a raspberry PI would have been preferable) and I was actually pretty happy with it, already over 550 videos downloaded and much more to go (8 TB disk exclusively for LBRY).

I was also following quite a few lists already.

Today I started the client and then realized that I hadn’t activated the Internet connection, the client warned that the connection to a wallet server took a bit too long… nothing new so far, it had happened before. I switched down the client (ctrl-q), opened the Internet connection and launched the client again.

But this time it apparently started as a fresh new installation, except for the settings: all paths to folders are still there, the amount of dedicated storage space is still the one I had set… the configuration settings are all still there, but I’m now following nobody and have no playlists (the playlists were allowing me to keep track of all the videos I had downloaded with the client).

All downloaded video files are still on the disk and I’d say that the folder ~/.local/share/lbry still takes the same amount of space (actually more than the downloads folder).

Is there a way I can recover my playlists and the list of channels I was following?
Is this client still able to serve the downloaded videos or has it lost track of them?

2

Info on this page recommends to open ports 3333, 4444 UDP, 5567, 50001.

If I check with https://canyouseeme.org/ I have a green check only with port 4444 provided I open it for any protocol, not just UDP. No visible service on the other ports (I do have them open for incoming connections the same way I have 4444).

I was anyways noticing considerable disk activity in some moments, so I was hoping to be actually serving data to other LBRY users.

Is there a chance that was OK despite having the green check only on port 4444?

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