Files in DownloadS folder disappeared, and that storage is still being taken up

[Andy Miller2]

So I cleaning out my very extensive Downloads folder. I was selecting files and folders that I wanted to keep and moved them to another folder on C:\ drive. I went back to the downloads folder to continue selecting stuff I wanted to keep. Literally everything left in there was gone. It said, “Downloads is empty”. Now I was planning on deleting most of the stiuff in there anyway and thought eh it’s whatever. Then I checked to see if the space the downloads folder was using, which was significant, something like 100-120Gb, had not been freed up. All the stuff that disappeared did not show up i

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