[SOLVED] Timeshift being slow

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Fizz
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Re: Timeshift being slow

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pbear wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2020 10:18 pm Do you happen to recall the full path to the folder? Would be helpful for troubleshooting in future. Thanks.
Thanks.

It was directly under the root directory: /.Trash-0. And note that it is a hidden folder. (That is, don't miss the leading . dot.)

It doesn't exist by default. I think it's created if you have an external device connected, and you delete something from it.

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pbear
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Re: Timeshift being slow

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Fizz wrote: Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:02 pm It was directly under the root directory: /.Trash-01.
Checking my notes, I found an explanation by forum guru smurphos of how this is supposed to work. He says, "In external mounts if you delete files on that mount to trash, gvfs will try and create a .Trash-100x folder on the external mount (the 100x being your UserID) to hold trash files from that mount." In that thread, the user had a problem with ownership of the mount point, but the symptoms were different. The hypothesis that your problem may have been due to removing the drive prematurely sounds plausible, but of course there's no way to be certain.

Anyhoo, thanks for following up. Have added this thread to the same notes from which I quoted smurphos.
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Re: [SOLVED] Timeshift being slow

Post by mrtabaa »

My Solution:
Connected the hard drive directly to a laptop's USB port instead of a hub fixed my issue.

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