Anyone use a Synology NAS and have issues with file deleting ?

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This has been driving me nuts all day..

I actually had ~245GB free yesterday, and I deleted a ton of old wiki files and then I ended up with zero space ?!

Now before anyone states stating the obvious, the recycle bin is actually disabled in the NAS Control Panel. And the recycle bin is actually empty.

Anyway I found out what was happening was doing a search for files larger than 10GB which chucked out loads of old system backup files.

They ended up in /@eaDir/@delete$

From my Internet searches /@eaDir/, is something to do with thumbnails or some rubbish like that but I've been unable to find anything whatsoever about the @delete folder.

Long story short, it is taking the past couple of hours to delete everything out of that folder, and now I have a much more realistic free space of almost 2TB!! So clearly the space has been dwindling away very slowly for the past couple of years without me really noticing.

To confirm it the problem either simply copied a picture on the drive, deleted it, and then it appeared in the @delete folder. But a "random" filename "0_6580_1743705291_864117280".

I believe the NAS runs some version of Arch Linux. Beyond that, there have been a couple of posts on the Internet of people saying they are deleting files and it is not freeing up space even though the recycle bin is empty. I can only assume there is some bug in Synology software somewhere :shrug:

So I will have to see if there is some way of running a cronjob to delete that folder each day to prevent this problem again.....