Backed up 40GB / 14,000 photos to Carbonite. B/U said 40GB / 48,000 files. Why?

Hi. (Numbers above are rounded off). Carbonite tech support couldn't explain it. During a test folder restore, the photos came back fine. All folders seemed to be in place. I noticed that if I delete files within LR it does NOT lower the Carbonite count. So it begs the question... Over the course of time, many of the photos that I worked on and then exported into a separate LR folder were subsequently deleted (from disk). In other words, I take a RAW photo, adjust it and export it into another part of LR as a jpeg and then delete the RAW files from the HD.
Is it possible that the deleted files left some mark in LR that Carbonite interpreted as a file? Maybe related to the catalog? How else could 14,000 photos be recorded by Carbonite as about 48,000 files? Especially with the same total volume.
Anyone using Carbonite have this experience? If not, I will delete the Carbonite B/U, wait a week and try again. Naturally, I would like to avoid that. Thanks much, Andy8400

Probably make sense to ask this another way:
To any Carbonite user: Did your Carbonite backup info approximately reflect the number of files (photos) that you actually uploaded from Lightroom?
Thanks much,
Andy8400

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