Is there any problem that is proved not independent of ZFC but the problem itself is not proved yet?

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Is there any problem in mathematics that is proved not independent of ZFC but the problem itself is not proved yet?

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I'll take the question to mean,

Is there any statement $S$ such that we can prove that $S$ is not independent of ZFC, but we have not yet been able to prove $S$, nor to refute $S$?

Any statement $S$ that can be settled by a finite computation, but by a computation that no one has carried out yet (or by a computation so large that no one is able to carry it out), will do. For example, the question of whether the Ramsey number $R(5,5)$ is 43. For another example, according to the most recent correspondence I have from Sam Wagstaff, who keeps track of this kind of thing, no one has been able to fully factor $2^{1207}-1$ (and when/as/if that number is factored, some other number will take its place).