My D drive partition is showing 196GB of used space. However, actual storage used by my files and folders is much less!

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I have a D drive partition of 256 GB. I don't have a lot of data in it. However, it shows 196GB used. I have tried disk cleanup but it didn't show any big temporary files of anything. Screenshot of storage details of other files shows 179 GB occupied by Other files. If I open that up, it is actually hardly even 16GB, so I am wondering what is it that is occupying my space?! I have tried scanning the drive for errors, no errors show up. I have tried looking for viruses, no threats show up.

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