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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 used dropbox in quite some time.

 

I went on, and deleted everything on both accounts, and the problem persisted, so I deleted my account entirely and got rid of all associated files on the computer, and still the problem persists.  I reactivated one of the accounts so I could come here to ask for help.

 

The folder is called:

com.apple.app-analytics.production.upload-dropbox

 

Inside are hundreds of folders with names like below.  There are about 18 per hour:

0D093EEA-1937-446E-B58F-7E530AA20564

desktop
Install
Mac

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  • EngineerMindset's avatar
    EngineerMindset
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    I have removed Dropbox and Dropbox extension. I turned off all the analytics, and I am still getting this folder and its subfolders:  com.apple.app-analytics.production.upload-dropbox

     

    I can delete it and it comes back within minutes to an hour.

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