Relocated Items folder containing Configu…

Relocated Items Folder After 11.6.1 Update Today The Apple Support pages give this explanation: If you see a Relocated Items folder on your Mac after upgrading macOS When you upgrade your Mac to macOS 10.15 or later, all your files and data are carefully reviewed to ensure they’re valid and authorized, undamaged, and in the correct locations. Some of your files couldn’t be moved to their new locations and were placed in a Relocated Items folder. You can find the Relocated Items folder in the Shared folder within the Users folder. The PDF document in the Relocated Items folder explains what to do with files placed in this folder. During the last macOS upgrade or file migration, some of your files couldn’t be moved to their new locations. This folder contains these files. The PDF in the Relocated Items Folder states this: Configuration files These configuration files were modified or customized by you, by another user, or by an app. The modifications may be incompatible with the recent macOS upgrade. The modified files are in the Configuration folder, organized in subfolders named for their original locations. To restore any of the custom configurations, compare your modifications with the configuration changes made during the macOS upgrade and combine them when possible. Configuration files with the suffix "system_default" were edited or customized, but the changes were allowed to remain installed. The system_default version of the file is provided to demonstrate what the Apple supplied version of this file would look like. It is recommended that you compare the two and evaluate whether you wish to integrate any changes Apple may have made to the default version. Is there any way possibly for Apple to be more vague about this folder or what we really (if anything) should do with the contents.

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Relocated Items Configuration files These configuration files were modified or customized by you, by another user, or by an app. The modifications are incompatible with the recent macOS upgrade. The modified files are in the Configuration folder, organized in subfolders named for their original locations. To restore any of the custom configurations, compare your modifications with the configuration changes made during the macOS upgrade and combine them when possible. My question is how to restore because not aware of the configuration changes happened during OS upgrade. Can't open all migrated files after upgrade.

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Major inconsistencies in macOS Ventura Having dealt with over a year's worth of problems with Monterey on my MBP16 M1 Pro, I [somewhat reluctantly] decided to give Ventura a try at solving the issues. So far, this seems to have been a big mistake. One issue is that, during the upgrade from Monterey to Ventura, my applications appear now to be all out of wack. I now have two primary "Applications" folders (three, counting the User's application folder). These two are "/Applications" (as before) and now "/System/Applications" (which I have never seen before). (A third one, of course, is in the User folder: "/Users/[myusername]/Applications".) What's even crazier is that, at any given time, I can view different contents within each. See uploaded screenshots. Note that the typical "/Applications" folder comprises 92.3GB of space, while the new "/System/Applications" folder only comprises 932.7MB, which appears to only contain Apple's core proprietary applications. Note that the original "/Applications" folder contains a duplicate set of Apple's core proprietary applications, in addition to all of my previous personal secondary apps (non-core apps). I have not been able to find any reference to the movement of apps to a new location in the release of Ventura, including from Apple's telephone support staff (although that's fairly typical). The attached screenshots illustrate the discrepancies. Note the pairs of side-by-side folder views (at the same time), showing differences in the contents (and folder sizes) of both the top-level view and content view of the "/System/Library" folder. Remember... these views were taken at the exact same time! I have included a screenshot of the contents of the two (partially duplicated) application folders I've programmed on Apple products exclusively since System 6 (and much further back, non-exclusively). During this time, I've dealt with numerous OS issues. I don't recall ever seen anything this crazy! I've wasted thousands of dollars and over a year of lost time trying to get my MBP16 M1 to work as it should. I hate to give up now, but this is incredibly frustrating! Thank heavens I have two MBP15 (Intel) backups, still running reliably under High Sierra. But some of my newer software won't run on that OS. Can anyone shed light on this?

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Relocated Items folder containing Configuration files has appeared on my Desktop.

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