Hard Drive Memory Issue..

Hi, I have an external hard drive that I download movies and television shows to directly from the web. The issue is that sometimes my external hard drive doesn't register with the program I use and then the file gets downloaded to the laptop itself, though I can't access the actual files. The program Disk Inventory tells me they are in a folder called "Volumes" but I can't find that folder even if I search for it. The room is being taken up on my laptop's HD anyways.I used to download directly to my computer and transfer the file to my external HD but after I deleted the original file, there seemed to still be some memory being used, not as much as the whole file, but a few bites had gone missing. What's going on?

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu and enter /Volumes/ as the folder's path to access those files.
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