Congratulations! Also happy to hear you succeed and your system is functioning again!
Thanks to all helpers, as I learn from you!
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While helping out, I realized that itâs not that easy to access the internal hard drive as an administrator during a live session. As soon as I accessed the internal hard drive with root privileges under âOther Places,â the ârootâ label disappeared from the top bar - and the "root" usually indicates that youâre currently acting as an administrator.
It now seems to me that you shouldnât use the sidebar at all to avoid losing root privileges, but then you canât select the internal hard drive at all.
The only thing that seems to work well is to install nautilus-admin, select the internal drive, and then right-click any folder of the internal hard drive and select âOpen as Administrator" and then to navigate only on the right side of nautilus, not on the sidebar.
Or you can copy the path of the internal drive and then add it behind admin:// (just adding admin:// at the beginning of the path of the internal drive when it is already selected, often doesn't work, it is better to delete the entire path first).
My instructions were not good, sorry. It wasn't until I was trying to help you that I realized I kept losing root privileges.
Even running nautilus admin:/// from the terminal didn't help. As soon as you click on other places to select the internal drive, in the top bar is no longer shown "root" nor admin in the path, so the root rights are gone.
The method with installing timeshift was much easier in this case to find and delete the snapshots.
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It sure was, thank you for devoting so much time to fix my issue.
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You're welcome! I'm glad you can access your computer again. Recovering 100 GiB of space is really a lot!
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