Restoring default icons

[citrom]

Well... I've made a pretty dumb mistake not gonna lie.
I've deleted all of my default icons and themes from the /usr/share/icons and /usr/share/themes folders, and now I'm missing a "few" icons...
So I'm currently looking for a way to restore all of them, and even tho I found the mint-x and mint-y icons on github, there was a "default" icon pack too, that I believe handled the missing icons

Any help on this issue would help! Though in worst case scenario I just refresh install mint

[rossdv8]

Not sure if this will work, but it is what I would try first if you were one of my customers.

I don;t know if Cinnamon has Synaptic installed, but if it doesn;t, you can do
sudo apt install synaptic

If you open synaptic there's an icon in the top right corner called 'Search'.
Click that and enter 'cinnamon' as the search item. You might find a few items that are installed.
Try 'Right Clicking' each of them and choosing 'Mark for Reinstallation'.

Once you have done that, click 'Apply' at the top and wait until synaptic has done its stuff and the window has reloaded. (Somewhere in the middle of this a Dialog will pop up saying you can CLOSE the window once things have installed).

Try a reboot and see if it worked.

I don;t use Cinnamon, but if I did, I'd be trying this as my first option

[smurphos]

Any help on this issue would help! Though in worst case scenario I just refresh install mint

I'd go for a fresh install - particularly /usr/share/icons/hicolor is difficult to reinstate manually as it includes icons from many many different packages installed on the system, so you'd be doing dozens and dozens of package re-installs. Or if you've got a timeshift snapshot that predates your delete-fest roll-back to that.