[mitchd123]

Happened to me tonight. Working via android remote, the kodi system was laggy. I went to delete a show, and a bunch of escapes were pending execution. It seemed like slow motion, it popped me out to my default folder and then I watched the default folder be deleted rather than the one show. I lost about 6 years of mythtv shows. I'm running extundelete to attempt to recover them. I couldn't agree more a feature request particularly on the top folder. I don't see any need to even have the default folder, it's just an extra step clicking.

The commands I used were as follows:

unmounted the drive (dev/md0) which held my recordings mounted in a folder /mnt/raid/media/mythtv
the directory /mnt/raid is on my root hard drive, and the /media/mythtv is on the raid drive

umount /dev/md0 (this is my raid array)

Switched to another folder with ample free space to hold all the recordings

cd /mnt/scratch


extundelete --restore-directory media/mythv /dev/md0

This found the deleted files and put them in a directory /mnt/scratch/RECOVERED_FILES/media/mythtv/