Q: iCloud management says I have documents stored in iCloud drive but I don't

Yes there are files there. The point is that iCloud drive is off on all devices. Prior to turning off iCloud drive I deleted all documents and desktop files by deleting them in  finder / iCloud drive... at that point all devices showed no files were in iCloud drive. The iCloud manager has 2.3 gigs for documents before and after I deleted them. So what should now be empty still has 2.3 gigs. The interesting thing is that when you opt out of iCloud drive it says it will delete all files stored there so do you want to save those files in there to your computer first. I did that and it download the 2gigs of files but there wasn't any files there in the saved file. They were ghost files. I know it downloaded 2gigs because I have a download monitor that saw 2gigs come through at the same time the operation was happening over a few minutes. So it downloaded 2gigs of nothing.

Thanks but I already tried those troubleshooting ideas

Just thought I would let you know this:

today I decided to view hidden files with a terminal command and found that the ' iCloud Archive file " actually had a hidden file called .trash in that file is about 2 gigs of trash. So from this I am assuming the hidden .trash folder on iCloud  drive still has these files in it.

So now the question is how to empty the Hidden .trash folder in iCloud.