Duplicate MGP Folders In iCloud

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My MGP folder in iCloud Drive on my PC looks like this:

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I’ve tried deleting the duplicate folders but they just keep reappearing. The first folder of each group is the only one that ever has files stored. The others just cause visual confusion.

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thanks a lot for sharing the screenshot — that really helps to see what’s going on. What you’re experiencing here with folders like is a quirk of iCloud for Windows, not MetaGrid Pro.

What’s happening

  • MetaGrid Pro only ever creates one set of folders (Profiles, Workspaces, Grids, Macros, etc.). The code is idempotent: if the folder already exists, it won’t create another.

  • On macOS and iOS you’ll only ever see that single clean set of folders.

  • On Windows, the iCloud Drive client sometimes gets confused by subtle differences in folder naming (case sensitivity, hidden characters, Unicode normalization). Because Windows doesn’t handle these distinctions the same way macOS does, it generates duplicates — adding (1), (2), or a trailing number to make them “unique.”

  • Deleting the extras on Windows often doesn’t stick, because the iCloud client re-synchronizes them from its index.

The important part

:white_check_mark: Your data is safe.

  • The first folder in each group (the plain “Backup”, “Buttons”, “Profiles”, etc.) is the one MetaGrid Pro actually uses. That’s where all your files live.

  • The numbered or “2” versions are empty stubs created by iCloud for Windows.

What you can do

  • Check on Mac/iOS: If you open iCloud Drive in Finder or the Files app, you’ll see only one clean set of folders.

  • Ignore the duplicates on Windows: They look messy but don’t affect functionality.

  • Update iCloud for Windows: Sometimes updating reduces (but doesn’t eliminate) this behavior.

What we’ll do

We will add a self-healing step in an upcoming update of MetaGrid Pro:

  • The app will check for these duplicate folders on startup, merge any stray contents back into the canonical folder, and clean up the empty duplicates.

  • This way, even if iCloud for Windows recreates them, MetaGrid Pro will automatically tidy things up so they don’t cause confusion.

So in short: MetaGrid Pro isn’t creating those extra folders, they’re a display/sync quirk of iCloud for Windows. You can ignore them for now, and your data is safe in the right place. A cleanup mechanism is coming on our side to make this invisible in future.

If anyone notices duplicates coming back under specific conditions (e.g. only after restarting Windows, or only certain folder types like “Custom Icons”), please share it here — that will help me fine-tune the cleanup logic.

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