It is a really good thought. Your comment prompted me to check the whole machine (SSD + raid array) and I don’t have any hard-linking of media files, torrent files or anything like that. So that isn’t it.

I think it’s just a bug in the system.

Not yet and hopefully I won’t have to do that.

Yeah, I thought about that too. It’s why I noted in the post that my files are set to delete and not be moved to the trash first. Those settings are in options/advanced.

I deleted .25 terabytes and it hasn’t changed at all. It used to increment up after every deletion, so this is new.

It doesn’t. I rolled the version back to 4.6.7 and it didn’t help, so I moved it forward again. Restarted the container, then the stack, then the whole physical machine. Nothing so far. Yeah, maybe I’ll file a report on their page.