Windows 10 C:\Users\NAME folder is much larger than the combined size of the files it contains

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I am trying to free up space and I noticed my Users folder was larger than I thought it would be. I am on Windows 10My C:\Users folder contains 2 folders. One with my name and the other called 'Public'. When I check their sizes Public is small (121 KB) with not many folders and the other is 7 GB with 8,467 Folders.However, when I open it I only see a handful of folders and their sizes doesn't even sum up to 1 GB. I have enabled hidden items through the 'View' route but that only reveals 1 new file and that is sized in KBs.Is it normal for the folder to be of this size with so many folders (8,4

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