PupSave folder grown HUGE with duplicate files

[Subito Piano]

Hmm -- a strange one here, my Puppy install is choking my SSD.

I loaded about 40GB worth of files onto a 170GB ext4 partition, then installed FossaPup into this partition inside a folder named PuppyLinux. I've added quite little since the install, but my Puppy Folder has swelled to 129GB, filling up my hard drive! I suspected that my original files have been duplicated inside -- well, a quick search revealed they weren't duplicated, they were "triplicated" -- !! To wit --

The file "Youth_Leadership_notes_NOAH.odt" is found in its original location (top line) plus two more locations:

• /usr/local/pschedule/test/Youth Leaders of Tomorrow/Youth_Leadership_notes_NOAH.odt

• /initrd/mnt/dev_save/Mr_D/NCA/Youth Leaders of Tomorrow/Youth_Leadership_notes_NOAH.odt

• /initrd/mnt/dev_save/Mr_D/PuppyLinux/fossapup64save-Mr_D/usr/local/pschedule/test/Youth Leaders of Tomorrow/Youth_Leadership_notes_NOAH.odt

So -- why is this happening? I can make a backup and delete the duplicates, but IDK if they will return. Ugh.

Thanks!!

[April]

Youth_Leadership_Permission_Form.odt

is a different file to

Youth_Leadership_notes_NOAH.odt

so its only dup;icated which is what you suspected isnt it?

On the size of your pupsave file I have noticed my browser ,in my case Opera, builds huge files of data on your disk and needs to be just deleted in whole from time to time . I just delete it and opera makes a new one again automatically . Use Gdmap in the manu to explore and see what the buildup is.

[bigpup]

Are you running some program that makes these files?
If yes.
It may be doing this.

[Subito Piano]

Good catch, April -- my typo, I fixed it in the first post.

I'm getting triplicates of EVERYTHING (well, so it appears). I note that it has to do with pschedule -- there are two files duplicated in /pschedule/test/ -- or in subfolders of the same. I'm thinking, as you mentioned (Bigpup) that perhaps somehow testing pschedule (cron) made copies of those files. Note that I used pschedule to run rsync. I believe I tested it one time.

Anyway, I'm out this evening, so before I go I'll start a backup of those /pschedule/test/ folders (though I highly doubt I need to), then delete them from my drive and watch what happens the next couple days. Hmm....

Thanks - - I'll post back.

[Subito Piano]

So I deleted something like 120GB of duplicates under /mnt/(drive name). I noticed that /mnt/sda5, /mnt/sdb1, etc., had complete copies of everything in sda5, sdb1, etc. How they got there, IDK. We'll see if they grow back...