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Recycle bin filling up with thousands of random .ini & .txt files

In the past 24 hours something is causing the recycle bin on my 2024 MacBook Air to fill up with random .ini and .txt files. I only noticed as I went to empty the recycle bin and it said there were 24k+ to delete.

When I empty the bin the files start to populate again, but when I turn off wi-fi the files stop. Turn wi-fi back on and the files start coming back.

46948e6aaa223f42.ini 14-39-16-821.ini

downloads3.txt 14-38-34-909.txt

Above is the format that the files are in. I'm running 14.4.1 and checked Activity Monitor but can't see anything that stands out.

Any ideas?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 14.4

Posted on May 1, 2024 6:43 AM

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BucksRothers

Level 1

38 points

Posted on May 6, 2024 12:33 PM

I've found a fix to this.

Turn off you wifi, then quit the OneDrive app.
Navigate to the application folder and control click the OneDrive app.
Click Show Package Contents
Open the Resources Folder
Click ResetOneDriveAppStandalone.command
Open OneDrive and sign back into your account.

That should reset OneDrive and fix the issue.

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28 replies

May 5, 2024 11:39 PM in response to stickyfingers85

Do you know the solution now?

May 5, 2024 11:41 PM in response to Lloyd_13

Me too. It also consumes battery. Could you reach out to when you have the solution pls.

ulmelqlo

Level 1

8 points

May 6, 2024 5:23 AM in response to stickyfingers85

+ 1 for me. Same exact scenario. OD stopped working out of nowhere, files won't sync and Trash is filling up with random .ini and .txt files.

May 6, 2024 10:37 AM in response to ulmelqlo

Looks like on my system, OD was updated on May 4th and the issues started then. Seems like MS maybe pushed out an update that is causing this issue.

May 6, 2024 12:41 PM in response to BucksRothers

Yup. Solved it for me.

May 6, 2024 1:07 PM in response to BucksRothers

This seems to have worked for me.

Thank you so much BucksRothers!

Lloyd_13

Level 1

8 points

May 7, 2024 1:55 AM in response to stickyfingers85

BucksRothers thankyou so much!!! That has solved the issue!! Do you know if the files that were created and in my trash - even though emptied will it have taken up disk space?