7ZIP deleted files but they still take space

[Seacat17]

Guys, I desperately need a help of someone who knows how Wine and 7Z works.

I had a folder that was ~18GB big and I wanted to compress it because it was very compressable (down to 1.2GB) and I used 7ZIP for it thru Wine because 7ZIP is pretty good at it.

I checked this little checkbox. "Delete files after compression".

It compressed them and they disappeared, leaving the archive. But the space taken by those files remains taken and I deleted all the temp data and cache I could find but I still can't free this space.

I checked "drive_c" folder and it's even smaller than the entire folder that is supposed to be deleted.

Any ideas on what might be happening in this case?

[jkfloris]

Is it possible that the files have been moved to your Linux trash directory?

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ls -asl ~/.local/share/Trash/files/

(Keep in mind that 7zip is available for Linux as well)