Trouble with Linux Mint saying hard drive is full but I can't find out why.

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TimPlays116

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So I recently was on my computer running Linux Mint 17 Qiana when it gave me a warning that my hard drive was almost full with less than 1gb left. I investigated in the Disk Usage Analyzer and deleted some Steam games and such that was taking up a lot of space. After this I had about 100gb left on my hard drive so I left my computer. When I came back a couple hours later, I got the message again that my hard drive was filling up. Checking back into the Disk Usage Analyzer I found some thing strange. It says that my main Home directory is 100% full and has 435.6gb of storage full inside. This did not make sense because not only do all the values in the home "Tim" folder not add up to 435.6gb (they add up to around 39.034gb) but the largest folders are only taking up around 1% of the disk space. I am not sure why this is happening and may believe there is a file or something that is not showing up. If you have any ideas on this problem please help!

Thanks,
Tim
 
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