Two documents in Word recently duplicated themselves in Finder almost 700 times. What causes this?

What causes files to duplicate themselves? I recently opened Finder to update a Word file and saw there were 605 copies of that file and 694 copies of the file below it. I am now concerned about updating those files or deleting them. Any advice? I'm using MacOS Catalina.

Posted on Jan 17, 2020 6:10 AM

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