Nope, nothing before bar 1 1 1 1, nothing anywhere at all. The record mode (record button option, if that´s what you are referring to?) is set to "Record".
I think I might have "solved" it, by recording over all groups of tracks at the same time, normally (not using shift + R). Then clean up the project and hit save. I don´t get why that helped (if it did help, need to give it some time to see), but so far there is no folders created.