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How do I get rid of this "1" I don't want to update to Catalina as it slows my Mac right down and programmes take ages to open.

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Posted on Mar 27, 2020 4:28 AM

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Posted on Mar 27, 2020 4:32 AM

Schrodinger56 wrote:

How do I get rid of this "1" I don't want to update to Catalina as it slows my Mac right down and programmes take ages to open.

Thanks

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/32a804a8-eb67-4bcf-a1e3-626973f38efd

Can you not ignore the update?

You can jump the hoops but it is tenacious this notification, You can try from the Terminal.app

from the Terminal.app copy and paste:

sudo softwareupdate --ignore "macOS Catalina"

then followed by:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0 && Killall Dock

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Schrodinger56 wrote:

How do I get rid of this "1" I don't want to update to Catalina as it slows my Mac right down and programmes take ages to open.

Thanks

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/32a804a8-eb67-4bcf-a1e3-626973f38efd

Can you not ignore the update?

You can jump the hoops but it is tenacious this notification, You can try from the Terminal.app

from the Terminal.app copy and paste:

sudo softwareupdate --ignore "macOS Catalina"

then followed by:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0 && Killall Dock

Many thanks. Having mild OCD that 1 was getting to me!! :-)

Schrodinger56 wrote:

Many thanks. Having mild OCD that 1 was getting to me!! :-)

Good computing Schrodinger56 !

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