Firstly , my icon disappear then when I reboot it , it's get stuck at this . I have tried timeshift and I have also test ssd , nothing work with ssd.
How much free space was left in root?
You can check if root is full (ran out of space) by booting into a LiveUSB, then checking the drive by selecting it with Disk Usage Analyzer.
I have dual booted windows , I guess i will need to delete that ,
Dual booting Windows, on it's own, should not cause this issue.
Do you recall how much space you allocated to Zorin OS when you installed it?
It looks like TimeShift is the actual culprit. You can see in your final screenshot that it's backups have stacked up to being a filled drive space.
So, probably what happened was, when the last backup occurred, it could not complete due to it filling all the available space, then root could no longer write to disk causing the desktop to crash.
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You could try to start a live usb stick with zorin, select try zorin and then access your drive and delete some older snapshots from the timeshift folder. The timeshift folder is usually located in the root directory.
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I deleted the window partition and increased time-shift drive's space , thanks guys , zorin forum is the best and quite active .
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bro , it happened again ,
You can go into TimeShift settings and limit how many backups it saves.
,i increased the time-shift directory's space . So there was 27gb left in that directory. So that was not the problem
Can you check the available disk space again? If it's the same problem again we then need to figure out why is it filling up so quickly. In addition to limiting the number of backups stored I'd recommend disabling Timeshift entirely. At this point, at least, there's not much point in keeping it running.
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Yes , timeshift is the culprit , but I don't understand how its full as the Directory has 81gb space (i deleted the windows partition and added to time-shift's directory). Yet , its full at 45gb . How?
Can you launch Disks and show us the entire disk partitions?
I have experience with Timeshift, this is what I learned the hard way.
I have a external Samsung 512GB SSD drive, I set Timeshift to do a full backup of my internal drive. This ended up being a mistake, as my internal drive is a 1TB drive, that has only like 160GB free. As such, my backup drive gets maxed out, before a full backup can be completed!
My advice as follows:
(1) Set Timeshift, to only backup the data you need saved, whether it be the OS itself, or your documents folder. Don't backup your entire internal drive!
(2) Timeshift by default, wants to store 3 different backups at a time, before writing them over. I suggest limiting Timeshift to 1 backup at a time, & deleting your additional backups that were created.
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