Shader cache cleanup question.

hello,

I'm very curious, POE has a mechanism where the shaders clean up before every new league. When I remove them manually, they go into the trash bin.

Right now after update before the league, I've seen the screen, "shader cleanup please wait" yada yada.

My question is, where did these shaders go? I didn't see anything in my recycle bin? PoE has such system that it literally destroys and evaporates it from your storage? Is this how it works?

Would be thankful for an answer, because if they are just moved somewhere, it's not ideal for sure.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: as far as I remember there was a at least few GB of shaders, but I don't seem to notice that I regained some space, how does this CLEAN UP work GGG? a little technical question I would like to know an answer for.

If they are just moved somewhere, then for multiple leagues I just lose space on my SSD. So I want to know, if they are completely evaporated from your storage or moved? Trash can is empty.