Why an I getting these tree names? I don’t sync anything from Ancestry or FS. Help! RM is picking on me. 
No idea but go to Windows Explorer & Move those files to a different Folder.
When you open RM and try to open those files, RM can’t find them and will erase from your list.
You can use Word or a gedcom editor to see additional info on them.
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I did that and deleted them. But they came back.
My guess is that your computer is running OneDrive or Dropbox or Google Drive or some such syncing software. Your RM databases are stored in your Documents folder, which sounds like it should be safe from being synced. But syncing software often takes over your Documents folder and syncs it along with all the other data it syncs.
I’m only guessing, but your symptoms do suggest that your Documents folder is being synced, probably without your knowledge or consent.
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I am on a MAC and don’t use DB or GD. I do use a Ugreen NAS, that does sync’s to my document folder. I have it setup when ever there is a file change in my local documents folder. The NAS does a sync of the updated file on the NAS.
Then that almost certainly is the cause of your multiple RM databases with the strange file names.
The short advice is that the RM database should never be in a folder that is synced while you are using RM. Your RM database should either be in an unsynced folder, or else your syncing software should be paused while you are using RM.
The long explanation is that RM updates continuously as you are using it. It doesn’t wait until you close out RM to do a save. Even trivial actions such as switching to a different screen or to a different view on the same screen can trigger RM to update its database because it can store status information in the database in addition to storing your genealogical data. The problem is that the syncing activity by your syncing software can and often will interfere with RM’s own ability to update its database. There are users who claim they have used RM for years with their RM database stored in a folder which is synced and that they haven’t had any problems. They may have just been lucky. Or they may have problems in their database of which they are not aware. It simply isn’t safe.
The official RM recommendation is not to store your RM database in a synced folder. Instead, store your RM backup files in a synced folder. I personally violate this advice by keeping my RM database in a synced folder and by pausing the sync while I am using RM.
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I’ll have to change it so it only sync’s at night when I’m not on RM.
You will also surely want to decide which of those databases is your “real” database and delete the rest.
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We don’t recommend running RM on a NAS drive. RM data access will slow down. It’s a underlying limitation of the SQLite database engine used in RM4-11. SQlite is designed to work with local drives, not networked drives. RM developers can do nothing about it. Store only the backups on your NAS network.
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