This is incorrect. Payouts are based on satellite side stats. You don’t need to run the filewalker. You get paid for what your node is supposed to be storing for satellites either way. Most likely your issue is because garbage collection doesn’t finish on time either and data that your node isn’t supposed to have anymore remains behind. Possibly including the data from decommissioned satellites.
Please look into this topic to clean up data for the removed satellites: How To Forget Untrusted Satellites
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