Random user named carroll on computer

Hi! I have a random user folder on my computer named carroll. I looked it up recently and other people have seen the same thing on their computer and they think it’s from zoom. I’ve used zoom before for college but I just noticed the folder a little while ago and I haven’t used zoom recently so I’m not sure if zoom is the cause of it or not. I don’t know much about computers so I’m not sure what’s in it but after constantly clicking through it I came across something that said x86_64 and there’s a bunch of blank files that I can’t open. Also, it’s just a folder, there isn’t an actual user on my computer named Carroll.   I’m not too worried I’m just curious about what it is. My Mac is fairly old and the version is 10.13.6 High Sierra.

Mac Pro, macOS 10.13

Posted on Aug 28, 2022 4:34 PM

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Sep 4, 2022 2:53 PM in response to MrHoffman

Thanks for replying! I’m not getting any answers from anyone else so all I did was uninstall zoom and then permanently delete the folder. Although, I’m not sure if deleting the folder from the trash can permanently deleted it but it’s all I thought of doing.

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Aug 28, 2022 4:50 PM in response to mariama177

Best ask Zoom support.


https://mobile.twitter.com/philofishal/status/1359955886064627715


Lots of removed references to this too, and not much detail left posted.


One suggestion is to delete Zoom, download the current Zoom, delete the Carroll folder, and re-install the current Zoom.

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