Full text indexes files missing?

I have a full text index...in the properties of the index the path
shows...
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\FTData
But if I look in the directory...I see nothing.
Yet...the system still lets me repopulate the index.
Is this normal? Should the index files be in this directory?
I searched the system for the .gthr files...and It shows them on the
D:\MSSQL\FTDATA directory.
This seems odd to me.They don't have to be in this directory, issue the following stored
procedure to find out where your files are
sp_help_fulltext_catalogs
Note the path column.
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>I have a full text index...in the properties of the index the path
> shows...
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\FTData
>
> But if I look in the directory...I see nothing.
> Yet...the system still lets me repopulate the index.
> Is this normal? Should the index files be in this directory?
> I searched the system for the .gthr files...and It shows them on the
> D:\MSSQL\FTDATA directory.
> This seems odd to me.
>