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What is Update under Locations in Finder?

Under Finder on the left hand side where Locations is, there is a weird Location called "Update". I don't remember installing this, and I am worried as I allowed someone to borrow my computer on Admin account for 30 minutes. Please help.


MAC OS Monterey 12.6.1

MacBook Air

Posted on Nov 24, 2022 11:10 PM

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Posted on Nov 25, 2022 7:34 AM

Ventura macOS 13, the Operating System resides in a Sealed and Read Only Volume that can not be opened by the User 


To get an accurate representation of the Drive structure in Monterey


1 - in terminal  type ' diskutil list " without the Quotation Marks


This is an snap shot of this command


And agree with @Luis S above it should not be visible to the User and there not appear in Finder


diskutil list


/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER


   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0


   1:             Apple_APFS_ISC Container disk1         524.3 MB   disk0s1


   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         245.1 GB   disk0s2


   3:        Apple_APFS_Recovery Container disk2         5.4 GB     disk0s3




/dev/disk3 (synthesized):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER


   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +245.1 GB   disk3


                                 Physical Store disk0s2


   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            8.8 GB     disk3s1


   2:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 8.8 GB     disk3s1s1


   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 5.2 GB     disk3s2


   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                741.4 MB   disk3s3


   5:                APFS Volume Data                    18.0 GB    disk3s5


   6:                APFS Volume VM                      20.5 KB    disk3s6


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Nov 25, 2022 7:34 AM in response to Tryingtounderstand1

Ventura macOS 13, the Operating System resides in a Sealed and Read Only Volume that can not be opened by the User 


To get an accurate representation of the Drive structure in Monterey


1 - in terminal  type ' diskutil list " without the Quotation Marks


This is an snap shot of this command


And agree with @Luis S above it should not be visible to the User and there not appear in Finder


diskutil list


/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER


   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0


   1:             Apple_APFS_ISC Container disk1         524.3 MB   disk0s1


   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         245.1 GB   disk0s2


   3:        Apple_APFS_Recovery Container disk2         5.4 GB     disk0s3




/dev/disk3 (synthesized):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER


   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +245.1 GB   disk3


                                 Physical Store disk0s2


   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            8.8 GB     disk3s1


   2:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 8.8 GB     disk3s1s1


   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 5.2 GB     disk3s2


   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                741.4 MB   disk3s3


   5:                APFS Volume Data                    18.0 GB    disk3s5


   6:                APFS Volume VM                      20.5 KB    disk3s6


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What is Update under Locations in Finder?

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