Windows 10 WindowsApps Folder contains files with wrong size information leading to wrong free space calculation on disk

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I have exactly the same issue as reported on this posthttps://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-save-disk-space-from-windowsapps-folder/9b1ff96c-eacb-4efa-a891-759e4fbc4b93All files contained into WindowsApps folder have 0 kb as size but using SpaceMonger, are seen as 8 GB for each file for a total a 128 GB of file. I managed to delete 7 of them without modifying any access rights (which were copies of already existing files in subfolder of this folder) and it diminished the free space available by 56 GB. I understand the answer provided by the advisor that the file are not

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