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How to disable/delete the auto generated folder on my desktop in Mac OS Mojave

Wonder whether anyone else have this same problem as me.

Recently, whenever I saved any documents onto my mac desktop, if there's more than 2 documents of the same format (eg. Word or Excel) an "auto-generated" folder appears and all these documents will go into it. If the documents I saved on my desktop are MS Word fomat, they go into a "Document" auto-generated folder, if MS Excel formal they go into a "Spreadsheets" auto-generated folder. Even when I take multiple screenshots, the captured shots go into an auto-generated "Screenshots" folder. Why is this so ??? I do NOT need an auto folder generated for me to save whatever documents I have. I can create my own folder to group all my documents more appropriately. This weird auto-generated folder thingy just happened recently. It wasn't like that before. Now I have to go thru all my documents to re-group them in the proper self-created folders that I want. Its driving me nuts !

Anyone facing the same problem ?

Hope someone here can help to advise how to disable this auto-generating of folders on my Mac desktop....



Posted on Sep 20, 2021 2:46 AM

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Posted on Sep 20, 2021 3:08 AM

Those are Stacks, Stacks were introduced in macOS Mojave.

you can click on the Stacks and they will expand to show you the contents.

Click once on the Desktop and click on View and decide whether to Use Stacks

or not by clicking and removing the tick.


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How to disable/delete the auto generated folder on my desktop in Mac OS Mojave

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