I’ve not heard of this before, and have never experienced it, despite having two different Mac on 12.x and before that, on 11.x.
Surely you have upgrades disabled in System Preferences? -- Marc Wilson posgu...@gmail.com On Sat, Jul 2, 2022, at 5:08 PM, Christopher Nielsen wrote: >>> 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. > > While I haven’t tested this, you can try permanently disabling > ‘softwareupdated’ via ‘launchd', at both the agent and daemon levels. > Not sure if this is blocked by Big Sur and later, but potentially worth > a shot. > > Anyone else…?
