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okay so, after it finished it cleaned itself up- crisis avoided! ill just mark this as solved, with the conclusions: DONT encrypt your hard drive! be aware, timeshift belongs on an external drive! dont panic, and a fresh install of the OS never hurt!

yeah, I can actually see what takes up my space now! LOL

thanks!! Yeah things are working better now, and I will read that article you sent on timeshift, the only problem I have right now is dealing with time shift.

honestly I think its timeshift that was the issue, but I will never know, because my files where encrypted, but if the issue happens again I will know this time!

I didn't use bleachbit till the issue came about, and yes, encrypting the drive was not needed, and proved to cause more harm then good. Happy to hear you've never had these issues. Now after reinstalling the OS everything is working better then ever ^_^

yes I tried to delete the folder, that wont work. also:

Hey guys, so i reinstalled the OS, and now have a 128 kingston USB as the backup for my files and for timeshift, quick question though, when it was trying to back up last night it didnt finish before i went to bed so i had to cancel and turn off the PC, but it didnt remove the half baked backup...

i tried fedora and it didnt work for me, just gonna reinstall LMDE 6 and not encrypt the file thing this time

so I cleared out everything, all the timeshifts, all the games, everything, and now i have 300 GB free and 150GB used by the strange /.Private ect folder. no idea what it is, cleared cache of steam too, and used BleachBit (i know, i know, its not good to use) and so i still got no clue whats...

thats a good point, im going to reinstall from a fresh USB/ISO and ill make sure to use timeshift with my 128 GB kingston USB

could be a linux issue or something i suppose

it was a box i could check and i went, hey why not. (during linux install to PC)

alrighty ill check them out. thanks.

there used to be like 10 but i culled them down due to it taking up a lot of space.

everything is on the same drive.

like ive shown, the issue is whatever is in /.Private and then gibberish encrypted stuff.

i tried timeshift, didnt work, tried bleach, didnt work, tried finding the files, they are either in /home or /run i think, and / or in private/encrypted - again no clue what happend here or what to do, trying to look for answers online, so far found none.

how do I not have access to run/user/1000 when im the only user on this pc?