QUIXEL BRIDGE in Unreal Engine SAYS I have zero local assets!?!?!

Super excited for Fab taking over. But i have already downloaded about 5k assets. And Quixel Bridge in Unreal Engine 5.4 Tells me i acquired exactly 5,891 assets. These were assets i downloaded ever since Bridge came around over time and are saved in my external 8 terrabyte hardrive.

The issue arrives when i noticed that the local downloaded section in Quixel Bridge says zero assets downloaded!!?!?

why~!??! I even changed the folder path in the preferences for quixel bridge in UE5.4 but nothing. No assets are showing up.

And yet the second i download something new in Quixel Bridge it does show up , BUT into another folder path? ****

And my local download section says 1 downloaded asset.
i deleted it so the local section is back to zero in the pic.
Notice Dash Plugin has my 900 atlas assets but cant recognize all the other assets, like the brush, 3d plants, and surfaces folders but that is another issue. For now i just wanna solve quixel bridge local folder issue and why it says zero.

I need my 5k assets to be recognized in the local downloads section of Quixel Bridge. How can i go about this !? i just wanna click and drag. i aint trying to download any more things. The reason i came back to Unreal Engine was because of the Dash plugin. It seemed too intuitive. But please no more downloads or updates for a while. I need to finish my portfolio and all these technical issues and constant downloads is slowly eating me up inside…