Catalina OS 10.15

[keskeseksa]

My computer says that I already have Catalina 10.15 however I get a message that I should upgrade to 10:15 and it doesn't work.

 

[chscag]

Welcome to our forums.

There is a supplemental update to Catalina that has been published by Apple. That is probably what it's asking you to download and install. Open System Preferences, Software Update, and it should tell you about the supplemental update.

 

[Rod]

Interesting, in the "more info" section it states that this update fixed installation issues. This may be very valuable for people who have not installed the upgrade yet, for those that have not so much.


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[chscag]

Interesting, in the "more info" section it states that this update fixed installation issues. This may be very valuable for people who have not installed the upgrade yet, for those that have not so much.


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I'm puzzled by your reply Rod? You have to have Catalina already installed before you can download and install the supplemental update. If I misread your reply, I apologize ahead of time.

 

[Rod]

That was my point, what value is a supplemental update to make installation smoother if you have to have installed Catalina to download the update? My assumption is that these bugs will have been eliminated from the installer and become a part of the Catalina upgrade in the first instance.


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[chscag]

Okay, I get what you're saying.

 

[MacInWin]

I would think that if one were to download the installer today, it would have the supplemental update included in the download. Not as a separate file, but with the changes included. That's the way it has worked before from Apple.

 

[Rod]

Agreed Jake, I think that's why it does not have an additional version number. But the problem I had hoped to be fixed, the folder shortcut of "relocated items" on the desktop still persists. Perhaps it's not a bug at all but an actual intended part of the installation. After all it does come with a document from Apple explaining it and providing optional measures to take. Personally I have just deleted them.


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[MacInWin]

Rod, that is definitely not a bug at all. It is, as you suspected, a part of the installation process. In it are files that the installer does not know what to do about. Rather than deleting them, it put aliases to them in the Relocated folder to let the user decide what to do with them. I think most I have heard about are "orphaned" files found in the System folder for which there is no longer an associated application. Some are even, apparently, some system files even from Apple apps. The one hang up folks are having is that some of them cannot be deleted because the are marked as "required" by the system when booted from the drive. To get rid of those, you need to boot into recovery, then find the offending file to delete it, and then delete the alias in the Relocated folder and reboot.

 

[Rod]

I found with the one that turned up after the supplemental update simply required an admin password to move to the trash. After that I trashed the alias and emptied the trash in the usual way.

 

[MacInWin]

It will probably reappear on the next update. I suspect it will continue to appear until all of the "offending" files are found and deleted, which may be never if your third party apps are creating new ones.