If you played with blossom, that could delete the media if asked. It is not in DB either, so it means it was a clean delete. It was not in our backup bucket, means that the deletion was done by the authenticated user
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I did experiment with the blossom uploader on Amethyst. Maybe some wires got crossed 🤔
With blossom, we are forced to deduplicate media by at least a user. So if you uploaded the same file as you had, and then deleted it, it would have deleted the only file. This only applies to blossom
I just checked, and the timing works out, that's right around the time you guys added blossom support, and I used it for a week or two. I may have uploaded a duplicate and deleted it, unaware that it would delete the original too. Detective Fishcake.