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BobF18
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Folders Appearing and Filling with Empty Folders Every Few Minutes on Mac OS

Dropbox has begun placing folders within folders in my Documents Folder.  I'm on a new MacBook Pro running the newest operating system, and this just started up yesterday.  Odd thing is I haven't use...
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DragonUser52
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

I don't think this problem has anything to do with Dropbox. I think it's an issue with the Sonoma 14.5 update, because that's when this problem started for me. Look at all the com.apple.app-analytics.production.upload-dropbox folders on my MacBook, and look where they are:

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BobF18
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

I thought the same thing, but the old machine is running Catalina.

 

This is sure weird.  We only had a single one of the top folders like you have above and one of the debugging folders like you have.  All are filled with empty folders.  The older machine has never used dropbox.  It was essentially a typewriter (email) and used to fill out forms (excel), but I don't think it has been used for either since COVID!

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