Timeline for Massive .dmg file in /Users/username/firmware/ folder: any ideas what the heck it is?
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| Jan 8, 2022 at 19:54 | answer | added | oliolioli | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 4, 2018 at 8:12 | comment | added | Gord Sellar | Planning on doing it, once I get confirmation that this is actually the case from the software's creator. If I don't hear back, I'll turn my above into an Answer (with caveats). Thanks for the advice and also the warm welcome, folks! | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 3:01 | comment | added | Ruskes | Turn that into a answer so we can close this question and you might get some points. | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 2:22 | comment | added | Gord Sellar | Hmm, okay. I should have mentioned, but I see other files/folders that suggest it's something to do with iPhone, like "kernelcache.release.iphone7." I now suspect that it's linked to the software iMyFone iOS System Recovery, which—because of where I live—was what I ended up resorting to using when my iPhone got screwed up during an iOS update. I'll check with the software creator about whether I can delete the file (i.e. whether it'll automatically download once more if/when I need it again). Thanks! | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 2:17 | comment | added | Monomeeth♦ | Firstly, welcome to Ask Different! :) I hope you come to find this site a useful resource! It may be worth investigating the hardware you have as it's most likely related to firmware updates for some 3rd party hardware (e.g. a router, printer, etc). Keep in mind that it doesn't necessarily have to be hardware that's connected to your Mac - it could be that you've just used your Mac to download the file(s) that you've subsequently used to update the firmware (e.g. a PVR, car audio/navigation, etc). | |
| Sep 3, 2018 at 2:00 | comment | added | njboot |
It's not an Apple firmware update - across all OS's, Apple saves firmware updates to /Applications/Utilities/. In fact, that folder doesn't even exist by default - it's some third party firmware update package.
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