100gb in music folder suddenly NOT SEEN - Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon 3.8.9

[nick_nick]

100gb in music folder suddenly NOT SEEN - Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon 3.8.9

All my other data in desktop and documents folders are OK.

Music files were ok yesterday, but today the music folder is empty...


When I click the Computer icon it shows
Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB properties

Name Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB
Type Unknown
Size Unknown
Location computer:///
Volume Unknown
Accessed Unknown
Modified Unknown

but using DISKS it shows
Model Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB (RVT01B6Q)
size 250 GB (250059350016 bytes)
Partitioning GUID Partition Table
Assessment Disk is OK (27° C / 81° F)
and for the single partition DISKS shows

Device /dev/sda2
Contents Ext4 (version 1.0) — Mounted at Filesystem Root
size 250 GB — 64 GB free (74,3% full)

Since it shows 64gb free (of 250 total) it is obvious that my 100gb of music files
are somewhwere in the SSD but can not be seen

Please help in any way you can.

[Flemur]

Check the "Trash".

You could also ... look for the files!

sudo find / -iname "*.mp3"

(assuming 'mp3')

[nick_nick]

Hi Flemur, thanks for the ideas.

the search sudo find / -iname "*.mp3" did not find any music mp3 but only a few mp3 in my documents folder.

The trash folder I don't know !!! where to find it , being a linux newbie.
I looked a bit in the nemo files explorer but could not find it.

[nick_nick]

I managed to find Trash icon to be shown on desktop from menu,preferences,desktop and setting trash to be shown on desktop.

I found music directories with original location folder tmp !!!??? NOT the music folder.
I restored and found 31,7 GB in /tmp but another 70gb are missing.

I have also tried to restore the system using TIMESHIFT from snapshot 31dec2018 but no luck.

I have all my music in external usb disks too, so the real problem is why did this happen ...
Is linux to blame and not trust it or have I done something ... which I find rather unlkely.

[Flemur]

Is linux to blame and not trust it or have I done something ... which I find rather unlkely.

"Probable user error." Very probable.

[Petermint]

tried to restore the system using TIMESHIFT

By default, Timeshift backs up only limited data. You have to add everything else to the Timeshift settings

[redlined]

hi nick_nick!

I'm new to linux, but this had me think it may be permissions related? to rule that possibility out run the below command in terminal, it will show if any changes are made.

sudo chown -Rc $USER:$USER $HOME

also, have you enabled viewing hidden files in your file manager? (in nemo, default file manager for Cinnamon) open file man, right click empty space and select "Show hidden files"

ls -l ~/Music should show if there is anything in there otherwise hidden from you (as long as you used the default for Music file storage, eg, /home/username/Music

the tmp directory you mentioned finding in trash sounds like file, maybe whole Music directory, corruption
have you had an unusual shutdown/reboot/restart recently?
have you run any sort of "cleaner" or "defrag" or somesuch app that might have broke things?
have you installed any apps recently from unofficial sources? (as in from manually added PPA, or .deb downloaded from somewhere, etc?)