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Hi,
I tried to use Photorec to recover some .txt files I deleted from the desktop but Photorec doesn't find any of them. Not sure if I am doing something wrong or the files are gone. When I deleted another file again recently just as a test, Photorec still can't find it. I searched the whole disk for .txt and .tx? files but didn't find any of the files I was looking for. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Please name your operating system and storage type (HDD/SSD).

Linux Mint 19.3
internal 128 G SSD

Your Linuxmint uses the TRIM function of a SSD. It tells the SSD which sectors are not being used anymore after deleting a file. The SSD then erases them.
The purpose is to speed up write operations as used sectors have to be erased before being able to write to them again.