Hi,

I accidentally moved some music files to the trash folder in linux Mint Cinammon.

the interesting thing is - I can play the songs, but God forbid I be able to rescue them from the trash in any way that I can see. I have tried to copy, cut / paste to another partition on the same drive, to my phone and to an external USB drive. "Restore" is not in the menu, as it sometimes is. It worked once but took FOREVER to move a few files. Every subsequent attempt and Nemo seems to freeze as the application indicator says it is trying to move the files but nothing happens.

I have another distro on the same computer, a Debian based one called MX Linux. I thought that rescuing these files from the trash in the Mint partition might be easier from the MX Linux installation, but I do not know how to find the "trash" folder ?

I would love to rescue these great music tracks but I am stuck. They are all led Zeppelin, Doors, Grateful Dead... would be a travesty....

From the mx system you should be able to get at them (from a terminal) easily enough. They'll be hidden - try something like:
/<mountpoint>/home/<user>/.local/share/Trash/...
Summit like that. Good luck - oh, and note my sigline.

I'll take a copy of anything you get back ...

If you are viewing the files from the trash folder in the file browser you should be able to just right click on the file and select restore.

Thank You.
Restore is not an option in the menu for some reason. I will try the command line attack.

If anyone knows any other way like bootable USB distro, anything that keeps me from cursing at the world while in a terminal that would be great.

The files should be located in your /home/username/.local/share/Trash/files directory unless they were located on an external drive. In a terminal window can you CD to that directory? Can you copy or move files from the terminal?

The (default) GUI filemanagers are a dead loss for large/complex operations. If CLI commands are too much for you, maybe look at midnight commander or xfe - I did the latter on a crappy Mint install a few years back and it absolutely flew.