[MacTUG] FYI - OS X Sierra installer auto-downloading

Wed Oct 5 13:34:59 EDT 2016

Hey Don,

derflounder has an article about disabling this feature through the gui and cli. Still a challenge for user owned macs.

Marlon

On 10/05/2016 01:23 PM, Donald Duff-McCracken wrote:
> The darned thing just showed up in my Applications folder (5GB)! As I am running on an SSD that is not that huge (500GB) I don’t appreciate it being there. It will be a great thing to check for when SSD equipped Macbooks start arriving without sufficient disk space.
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> Additionally I would imagine users with tiny data plans being quite annoyed by this.
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> On 2016-10-04, 4:39 PM, "mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca on behalf of Glenn Anderson" <mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca on behalf of anderson at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
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>     MacOS Sierra is now auto-downloading the Sierra installer, but the user still has to choose to do the update.
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