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BobF18
Helpful | Level 5
10 months 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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redroverisadog
New member | Level 2
9 months ago

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.

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