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Relocated Items Folder After 11.6.1 Update Today

The Apple Support pages give this explanation:


If you see a Relocated Items folder on your Mac after upgrading macOS

When you upgrade your Mac to macOS 10.15 or later, all your files and data are carefully reviewed to ensure they’re valid and authorized, undamaged, and in the correct locations. Some of your files couldn’t be moved to their new locations and were placed in a Relocated Items folder. You can find the Relocated Items folder in the Shared folder within the Users folder. The PDF document in the Relocated Items folder explains what to do with files placed in this folder.

During the last macOS upgrade or file migration, some of your files couldn’t be moved to their new locations. This folder contains these files.


The PDF in the Relocated Items Folder states this:


Configuration files

These configuration files were modified or customized by you, by another user, or by an app. The modifications may be incompatible with the recent macOS upgrade. The modified files are in the Configuration folder, organized in subfolders named for their original locations.

To restore any of the custom configurations, compare your modifications with the configuration changes made during the macOS upgrade and combine them when possible.

Configuration files with the suffix "system_default" were edited or customized, but the changes were allowed to remain installed. The system_default version of the file is provided to demonstrate what the Apple supplied version of this file would look like. It is recommended that you compare the two and evaluate whether you wish to integrate any changes Apple may have made to the default version.


Is there any way possibly for Apple to be more vague about this folder or what we really (if anything) should do with the contents.

MacBook Pro (2020 and later)

Posted on Oct 25, 2021 7:05 PM

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Posted on Oct 25, 2021 7:30 PM

MargeHomer wrote:

The Apple Support pages give this explanation:

If you see a Relocated Items folder on your Mac after upgrading macOS

Is there any way possibly for Apple to be more vague about this folder or what we really (if anything) should do with the contents.


If you do not recognize anything in there that effects your work flow—

You can delete it. In reality you loose nothing it is just an alias.

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Oct 25, 2021 7:30 PM in response to MargeHomer

MargeHomer wrote:

The Apple Support pages give this explanation:

If you see a Relocated Items folder on your Mac after upgrading macOS

Is there any way possibly for Apple to be more vague about this folder or what we really (if anything) should do with the contents.


If you do not recognize anything in there that effects your work flow—

You can delete it. In reality you loose nothing it is just an alias.

Relocated Items Folder After 11.6.1 Update Today

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