I have a MacBook air which is using macOS Catalina at the moment. I don't have the required disk space to install Big Sur or Monterey. When I look at applications taking up space both are taking up 12GB that I would like to free up.
Can I delete the "install macOS Big Spur/Monterey" applications to free up disk space?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15
Yes, you can delete the "install macOS Big Sur/Monterey" applications to free up disk space on your MacBook Air. These applications are used to install the operating system on your Mac and are no longer needed once the installation is complete. However, please note that deleting these files means that you won't be able to install Big Sur/Monterey again without downloading the installer from the App Store or from Apple's website.
To delete the installer files, follow these steps:
After deleting the installer files, you may want to consider other ways to free up space on your Mac, such as deleting unnecessary files, clearing out caches and temporary files, or using an external hard drive for storing files.
Yes, you can delete the "install macOS Big Sur/Monterey" applications to free up disk space on your MacBook Air. These applications are used to install the operating system on your Mac and are no longer needed once the installation is complete. However, please note that deleting these files means that you won't be able to install Big Sur/Monterey again without downloading the installer from the App Store or from Apple's website.
To delete the installer files, follow these steps:
After deleting the installer files, you may want to consider other ways to free up space on your Mac, such as deleting unnecessary files, clearing out caches and temporary files, or using an external hard drive for storing files.
why not just delete the files or data on the storage that you don't use then remove old unused data and install the macOS Ventura. many options to remove data if you look at the systems fold an then look at the storage it will normally show you which file or files is taking up data.
Thank you for your input. The storage indicates that it is mostly applications that are taking up space on my disk space - 42GB. So thought I'd stick with Catalina and get rid of the other two that I can't update as I don't have enough space for them. Not sure if that makes sense?
Thank you for your input, much appreciated!
Disk space low
