Files are deleted but space is not freed

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Did you setup TRIM on your SSD? Windows does this automatically, but you have to do it manually or set up a Cron job to schedule automatically. Go to this link and scroll down to read about TRIM:

[Solved] Files cant find my Download folder

Is this an HDD or an SSD drive you have? If HDD choose the 'Something Else' method at point of install. Create a 512 Mb FAT32 partition for /boot/efi Create a Primary Ext4 partition of 80 Gb and mark it as '/' (without the quotes) Create an Extended Partition - at the End of the extended partition using Gparted, (this is graphically the furthest to the right) create a swap area equivalent to double your RAM). Create /home to the left of the swap area, formatted to Ext4 If an SSD, as for 1 and…