On May 5, 2022, at 07:59, Christopher Nielsen wrote: >> In addition, as you may know, a bug in recent macOS causes it to download >> the 12+ GB macOS Monterey installer periodically which would have left it >> with only 8 GB available. > > I recently discovered this behavior as well. > > My solution is to leave the installer in place - ensuring it’s not > auto-downloaded again - while removing ‘SharedSupport.dmg’ from within the > app bundle. This frees up the vast majority of storage space, without > invalidating the installer itself.
This method has not been effective.