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I am using Ubuntu Gnome 17.04. I have been using Timeshift successfully, however, I decided to exclude a few folders (like steam games) to help reduce the amount of space the backups take.

I removed the snapshots and checked my disk usage. To be expected, my disk usage was much lower about 76 GB. I excluded the folders and began the new snapshot. During the process, I realized that I had excluded the wrong steam folder and hence, I canceled it. It now says that

There is not enough space to create a snapshot

When I look at Disks application it shows that my SSD is at about 205 GB. When I look at the Disk Usage Analyzer, it shows that it is still using around 76 GB. Could there be some hidden folder where the snapshot have been saved, when I cancelled the process? Any help would be very much appreciated!

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I've realized what was happening. It is obvious now, but for others that are ignorant to Ubuntu as I am; There is another trash folder in the root directory. I installed k4dirstat (which seems to be better than "Disk Usage Analyzer") and see that I have 114.56 GBs sitting at /.local/share/Trash. Problem solved. Thanks all if you had attempted to help!

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