Kodi emptied my libraries and now won't set source content
Hi, I'm really hoping someone can help me fix this. I've been using Kodi for about a year to play local media and up until a few weeks ago it worked fine. I have it installed on an old laptop running zorin os 15.3 with my media on an external hard drive. I'm pretty sure the version of Kodi that is easily available on this outdated computer is also older because some setting options I've seen others talk about don't seem to exist for me haha
A while ago it stopped properly scraping new media when I updated the library and then one day I turned it on and the whole thing was empty. I can still play media through the file settings where the drive stayed visible but the folder contents had been reset to "none" and if I change the setting it just doesn't stick at all and stays "none" again.
I've restarted every part of the system, I've checked the files to make sure they're still good (and I know I have the proper organization and folder names because they all worked prior to this), I've reinstalled Kodi like 5 times, I've removed the drive as a source and added it back over and over. Nothing I've done has had any impact at all 😭 I have friends visiting soon and we like to watch stuff together so I'm hoping to resolve this before then