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I am working on Magento 2.2.2. I have deployed the website on a subdomain in my VPS within a account.

The strange thing is that, the “generated” folder gets automatically generated after deletion.

To investigate, I deleted everything inside the subdomain root folder where I had put the Magento 2.2.2 website code. Still from nowhere this “generated” folder and some sub-folders inside it gets generated automatically. See snapshot below.
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I also checked with command crontab -l and found that there are no cron jobs running. I also restarted apache server from my WHM panel.

What might be causing this to happen?

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    Ok. I found the issue. The issue was that in my VPS account, I had logged in as root user and then executed all the upgrade, compile and deploy commands. Moreover I started cron also as root user.

    But I was deleting files in generated folder and other cache folders in var directory from cPanel. And I had logged into cPanel as user of my website account.

    I removed all cron as root user with command: 

    php bin/magento cron:remove

    Then I logged into my vps SSH using root user and executed following command:

    rm -rf mydir

    where mydir is the name of directory which I wanted to delete. I deleted "code", "metadata" inside "generated" folder and then re-created from cPanel. Not from SSH as root user. I also deleted "cache", "page_cache" inside "var" folder using SSH as root user and created them back from cPanel.

    Now I refreshed the "generated" folder a few times in cPanel to see if the folders inside generated/code/... are generated. And now they are not automaticlally generating. But do keep in mind to install and run your cron jobs after all these.

    I believe, the problem of automatic generation of folders inside generated folder was caused more due to cron being run as root user and I was deleting folders as cPanel user.


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    generated folder contains generated codes, to make sure all the methods are corrected and speed-up the process

    http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.2/extension-dev-guide/code-generation.html

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