Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 8:35 PM From: "Ryan Schmidt" > I noticed copies of the Install macOS Monterey application on both the > Catalina and Big Sur MacPorts buildbot build machines. I've of course never > requested the download of these installers on those systems and they are > configured not to update automatically and not to download new updates > automatically. If you have machines running Catalina or Big Sur, you might > check to see if you too have an unwanted Install macOS app in your > Applications folder that you can delete to save space.
If the installer is deleted, it may eventually be downloaded again. To prevent this, one workaround suggested by https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/sj3aia/comment/hvcm3e4/ is to create an empty folder 'Install macOS Monterey.app' and lock it (either from "Get Info", or from the command line using `chflags uchg '/Applications/Install macOS Monterey.app/'`).
