cant download mac os montery says have big sur 11.6
can i free space to add mac os Montery
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.6
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The final word from Apple on Managing the " Other " Category
- Other: Contains files that don’t fall into the categories listed here. This category primarily includes files and data used by the system, such as log files, caches, VM files, and other runtime system resources. Also included are temporary files, fonts, app support files, and plug-ins. You can't manage the contents of this category. The contents are managed by macOS, and the category varies in size depending on the current state of your Mac.
And after all the above and still do not have the required 26 GB of Empty Space for the Monterey upGrade - one could infer this computer has the tiny 128 GB Internal Drive ?
This will be a challenge short of erasing the entire Drive and performing a Clean Installation of Monterey. Even after that, it is suggested to keep at least 15% of the Drive Total Capacity as Empty Space for good operations of the computer and for additional updates to Monterey to download, expand and install.
