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[Closed] Anyone a Mac OSX Guru?

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My Macbook has about 15gb of .pkg files from previous versions of OSX. Is there anyway to safely remove them?


 
Posted : 25/09/2020 12:50 pm
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Once you have used the .pkg to install the apps you should be able to just throw them.
If you are twitchy about this then just transfer them to a different drive and see if anything stops working before you finally throw them, but it should be fine if you did any install correctly.


 
Posted : 25/09/2020 1:07 pm
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There's no option to delete them. I'm suprised OSX doesn't clean them up with the subsequent install, but I've accumulated packages from the last 3 updates.


 
Posted : 25/09/2020 1:12 pm
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Drag them into Trash.


 
Posted : 25/09/2020 1:21 pm
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This is strange. There shouldn't be any 'leftover' pkg files, and there shouldn't be anything stopping you deleting them. I would be worried they are some form of Malware.

You could try navigating to the folder in a terminal window and type (no quotes)

'sudo rm *.pkg'


 
Posted : 25/09/2020 1:43 pm
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They can't be dragged in to the trash.


 
Posted : 25/09/2020 1:51 pm