No Room to Install Catalina

Hi Scarlett39,

My pleasure.

For applications you can take a look at AppCleaner. it will remove all files associated with that specific applications. Just drag an application onto it and it will remove all support files.

I would be careful removing files from the System folder for applications as it could cause them to stop working. I would look under Reduce Clutter at your own files and go from there and not mess with system files.

I hope this helps.

Hi Scarlett39,

If you go to storage under About this Mac, what does it say for Available under Macintosh HD? For example, 142GB oiyt of 256GB.

You can also take a look at this article, how to free up storage on your Mac.

I hope this helps.

Control (right) - click on the hard drive icon on the Desktop and bring up the Info pane for it. How much free space does it say you have?

Don't rely on the About This Mac storage info. It's know to be rather inaccurate.

Hi Scarlett39,

Thanks for this information.

Do you have a backup drive or an external drive with a lot of space?

I would take a look at what large files you have on your Mac and transfer them to an external drive.

To do this, go to the Apple Menu > About this Mac > Storage > Manage and click Review Files next to Reduce Clutter. From there it will list all the large files you have on your drive and a way to locate them to transfer to your external if you wish to keep it or to delete it if not.

It's sorted by type on the side, for example Applications, Documents, Messages, Music, etc.

I hope this helps.

Try increasing the free space to about 20 GB and try again. Also the Mac will run better if the free space is kept around 20 GB.

Good point!

My pleasure!