Brave leaves more junk files on my laptop drive than it used to

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I recently bought a new laptop with Windows 11. My ASC maintenance app is finding more “privacy traces” and “junk files” left by this latest Brave version than it ever has. Is it normal for between 1000 to 3000 junk or privacy trace files to be left on my drive after I use Brave? Here’s my system:
Machine Id: {E4223714-A9F4-442F-82C9-21B68E957577}
Operating System: Windows 11 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 26100) (26100.ge_release.240331-1435)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: HP
System Model: HP Laptop 15-fd0xxx
BIOS: F.12 (type: UEFI)
Processor: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i7-1255U (12 CPUs), ~1.7GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 16028MB RAM
Page File: 7165MB used, 9886MB available
Windows Dir: C:\windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: 144 DPI (150 percent)
System DPI Setting: 120 DPI (125 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: UnKnown
Miracast: Available, with HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Not Supported
DirectX Database Version: 1.6.5
Auto Super Res Version: Unknown
System Mux Support: Mux Support Inactive - Ok
Mux Target GPU: dGPU
DxDiag Version: 10.00.26100.2454 64bit Unicode

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Please report the path to where those files are accumulating.

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first on list: Users\ “my name” \AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Cache\Cache_Data\data-0
All paths, several thousand of them, go to either \UserData\Default\ , followed by \Cache\Cache Data\ or \Code Cache\js\ Thanks.