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

What did you write to them?  You might be able to save me a lot of typing!  Thanks!!!

I was able to find a temporary solution. Right click on the 'com.apple.app-analytics.production.upload-dropbox' folder, and select 'get info' in the menu. Under the General tab, I locked the folder and I have not gotten any new folders within in since. Only downside is that the main folder must stay in the directory, I will just rename it something or try to hide it. Hope this helps!

Hey all, I *think* I have found the solution. I used EasyFind to search my *entire* Mac for the folder we're seeing in Documents: com.apple.app-analytics.production.upload-dropbox. There are 10 total of them on my Mac, including the one in Documents. I focused on the word "analytics" and started looking around. I already had analytics turned off here:

...but I DID NOT have it turned off here: Privacy & Security --> Location Services --> System Services (Click "Details...")

Since turning off "Mac Analytics" I've not seen a new folder added to Documents/com.apple.app-analytics.production.upload-dropbox in almost 24 hours!

Sadly no. That didn't do it for me. All those same tabs are turned off. Did you do a restart first? Still getting folders every 3 minutes. 

I did multiple restarts while trying to solve this issue and can't quite remember if it was before or after, or both. Sorry it didn't work for you. So far today still good here, no more new folders. If that changes, I'll report here.

No luck here either.  I found the setting you showed and turned it off and then restarted, but still every 4 minutes.  Fingers crossed that someone finds the magic touch!

I've got a bandaid and some weird news:

The bandaid is a combo of what some others have said.  I deleted all of the inner folders inside the main folder:  com.apple.app-analytics.production.upload-dropbox

I then locked the folder so nothing else could be placed inside.

After that, I launched Terminal (in the utilities folder) and hid the folder.  (First type chflags hidden and then one space (don't hit enter) and then dragged the com.apple.app-analytics.production.upload-dropbox folder into the terminal window.  This works at least for now, but something is still trying to place those folders.

I almost never use the desktop in the office anymore since we're all remote, but when I took a peek at it, the desktop had the same crazy folder filled with hundreds of empty folders.  This machine doesn't even have dropbox installed on it, and it's running a pretty old OS!  This is crazy!

I should keep this open in case anyone has an actual fix.  I'll call this a good bandaid so far...

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:

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!

Interesting that permissions on the Document directory is me R+W, Everyone Else, "No Access" Yet files are being written.

~/Library/Application support has the same permissions. This is where these type of files are written. Seems a developer didn't test this.