I have to work remotely from a server at my job. For months now, Illustrator will create these strange duplicates of a file I work on, even if I haven't saved the file. There's no pattern to when these files are made, as I sometimes use a variable import script to btach multiple files at once, but not all files are duplicated. Please refer to the screen capture I includes.

In that folder, there should only be 2 AI files, man and woman. But without my prompting, it created those duplicates, and they can't be deleted without rebooting your computer once or even twice because you receive an error message saying the files are in use....and they are not. So even if a reboot allows you to delete one, you may have to it again for the other.

This is such a nuisance. I can't reboot 30 times a day just to delete unnecessary files from my company's server. What is causing the duplication and how the heck can it be stopped? It's maddening.