How to delete MacOS Installer (NOT in Applications)?

[DianaofThemiscyra]

I'm still on Sonoma (latest update available) and I am not willing to update to Sequoia. I have applied a couple of profiles to help me avoiding this, but it seems that even though I do have DISABLED automatic downloads of the MacOS through profiles, the computer have downloaded it anyway (an old version of the OS) (The decrease of available free space on my HD seems to confirm this fact). Is there a way to get rid of this downloaded installer? As mentioned before I am using a Mac Mini M1 with Sonoma on its latest available version.
Please, check the images below to understand better what I mean about the installer (the installer is NOT in the Applications folder, it's probably downloaded and hidden somewhere in my HD). I have also a second question: How on Earth could my Mac have downloaded a new version of the OS even with settings enforced by profiles to NOT to? Can any expert ou power user enlighten me, please?
Thanks in advance to whom may be able to help me.

 

[bogdanw]

Try

sudo find /var/folders -iname '*InstallAssistant.pkg*'

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-find-source-of-high-data-usage.2416022/post-32848052

 

[DianaofThemiscyra]

Try

sudo find /var/folders -iname '*InstallAssistant.pkg*'

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-find-source-of-high-data-usage.2416022/post-32848052

Thank you so much bogdanw! I will try it and let you know.

 

[DianaofThemiscyra]

It found:

/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000s0000068/C/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/05/43/072-01382-A_5URDEOHRHL/chwodorv8xcjx5ea41i5gmmw9ofgjwxtq1/InstallAssistant.pkg.integrityDataV1


/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000s0000068/C/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/05/43/072-01382-A_5URDEOHRHL/chwodorv8xcjx5ea41i5gmmw9ofgjwxtq1/InstallAssistant.pkg.partialState


/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000s0000068/C/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/05/43/072-01382-A_5URDEOHRHL/chwodorv8xcjx5ea41i5gmmw9ofgjwxtq1/InstallAssistant.pkg.partial

If I search for those files the only one I find is the first one, but it's not recent... it's from 2023... I don't think it's the first one. The other ones can't be found. (I searched also with Find Any File, but again, found only the first one).

 

[bogdanw]

You can delete all from Terminal with:

sudo find /var/folders -iname '*InstallAssistant.pkg*' -exec rm -f {} +

 

[DianaofThemiscyra]

You can delete all from Terminal with:

sudo find /var/folders -iname '*InstallAssistant.pkg*' -exec rm -f {} +

Sorry for my late answer. Thank you so much bogdanw!