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When installing the mac version my applications folder gets populated with a lot of files. (Deleting them doesn't seem to impact on the GMS2 functionalities... but those are left overs from the installer.
OK looks like someone has removed a default directory and they are just copying files into the current working directory (which is /Applications initially)