Files vanised, cannot restore snapshot and messed up datadir

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The issue you are facing:

The main issue is that part of my stored files vanished, without a trace. No trace of them in the activity or trash.
The second problem was that I couldn’t restore btrfs snapshot, it said: ERROR: Not a Btrfs subvolume: Invalid argument
Well, then i did something stupid with nc-datadir and now I get stat: cannot statx '/media/myCloudDrive/ncdata/data': No such file or directory
Now I lost all access to he nextcloud, webapp says Error: Your data directory is invalid Ensure there is a file called “.ocdata” in the root of the data directory
At this point, I am lost.

Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N):Y

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Are your files stored on an external drive and if so, is that drive still mounted?

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Yes, on the external drive and I think it is mounted. (lsblk finds it). Although, there is no mountpoint listed. I have automount checked.

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If no mountpoint is listed, it’s not mounted.

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Now I have it mounted: /media/myCloudDrive
Still can’t restore files. Now the error is: ERROR: not a btrfs filesystem: /media/myCloudDrive/…/ncp-snapshots (It was btrfs)

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I’m a bit panicked. I just want to restore files now, is there a way to do that? I tried disk drill, but it doesn’t find folder structure.