Delete macOS Catalina Installed Files

Asked Oct 11 '19 at 14:00

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I have downloaded macOS Catalina, through the software upgrade, and it doesn't install for me, and it keeps adding the downloaded software to my storage, so I downloaded the OS upgrade once it went down 8 gigs, the next time I downloaded it, it went down another 8, so I lost 32 GB of storage because of the downloaded files. I was wondering how to delete these files.

Edit: There is no Install macOS Catalina.app file in my applications folder, I have checked for hidden files in that folder, and used the terminal to ls that directory.

Thanks

edited Oct 11 '19 at 14:15

asked Oct 11 '19 at 14:00

Anmol Brar

Possible duplicate of Remove Catalina Update files from Mojave – anki Oct 11 '19 at 14:04
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Hi @ankii, this solution does not work, as said file does not exist, I have already tried this. – Anmol Brar Oct 11 '19 at 14:14
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/5353/how-can-i-figure-out-whats-slowly-eating-my-hd-space – anki Oct 11 '19 at 14:28
Also check in /Library/Updates . I found 10.14.6 in there, doubtful about Catalina. Also, you may want to use easyfind to search for terms like "update" or "Catalina". – anki Oct 11 '19 at 15:08
@ankii It seems like I may just have to perform a clean install as it is stored in a part of the operating system that I cannot access. – Anmol Brar Oct 15 '19 at 14:52
I just searched for 10.14.6 in easyfind and it returned me the results to /Library/Updates. you can try that for similar terms. Just allow access to file system if/ when it asks. – anki Oct 15 '19 at 15:18

Delete macOS Catalina Installed Files

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