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wmutschl / timeshift-autosnap-apt

Timeshift auto-snapshot script for Ubuntu and Debian based systems which creates snapshots of your system with timeshift before a package install, remove or upgrade using DPkg::Pre-Invoke hook in apt. Fork of timeshift-autosnap from AUR.
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Deleting Timeshift data - Help please #18

Open Raggabam opened 1 month ago

Raggabam commented 1 month ago

I'd been running Timeshift for two years on Ubuntu 22.04 Budgie. The Timeshift data directory had grown to 70 GB. I decided to delete and re-install Timeshift. Sadly, I went to Ubuntu 'Software' from where I had originally downloaded Timeshift and asked 'Software' to remove TS. The Timeshift data dir wasn't removed.

I tried to remove the dir using rm -rf Timeshift. The process ran for a long time but wasn't able to delete directories and most files. If I had read your instructions on GitHub, I wouldn't have had this problem.

I'm not skilled at Linux, and I'm hesitant to experiment with rm -rf. Could you please tell me how to get rid of the Timeshift directory?

Thank you for this really nice software.

Cheers!

Raggabam commented 1 month ago

I re-installed Timeshift and then deleted the snapshots. There was only one which was occupying 70 GB and took several minutes to delete.

The Timeshift dir and subdir were still present. But removed them with sudo.

The text that tells you to delete the data before deleting the app is actually in the Linux/mint Readme doc.

Sorry for filling up the space with something I was (finally!) able to fix.