So, I’ve not set it up yet, but using virtualization seems like a more promising option. With the Ventura beta, I was unable to get the beta to even install on the external SSD (neither the full installer nor updating from the Monterey beta). It would only boot my M1 Mac if I ran the installer and each update from the M1 Mac itself-taking it out of commission for hours. This was kind of a pain because I couldn’t set it up using my secondary Intel Mac. This tiny app will be useful when standard deletion methods fail. However, I only bring one Mac with me when I travel, and I don’t trust installing a beta version on the internal SSD. Delete.On.Reboot is a simple but powerful option for deleting non-erasable files, directories, subfolders upon Windows restart. Lately, I’ve been doing this without virtualization, just using separate partitions and external SSDs on a separate Mac. My main interest in virtualization is for running old or beta versions of macOS for testing.

None of the apps supports Apple ID connections, which is a serious problem for making the transition to Ventura: this means that a Monterey VM can’t run App Store apps at all, except for Apple’s free apps, such as Numbers.īy far the most economical solution is to create a new volume on which to keep your VMs when that’s added to Time Machine’s exclusion list, then snapshots won’t be made of that volume either. That’s essential if you want to downgrade or disable Secure Boot, for example if you want to turn SIP off in your VM. The one notable exception to this is VirtualBuddy, which apparently uses an undocumented method of booting a Monterey guest into Recovery mode.

There’s also my free app Viable now in beta 3.Īll four of these apps currently use Apple’s Virtualization framework to download, install and run macOS guests, thus have almost identical core features and shortcomings. Unlike the aggressive approach of deleting locked files with ThisIsMyFile, this is the regular procedure provided by Microsoft on all Windows OS, but here you can still also move the files to a directory for example to check the possible culprits files.There are currently three major apps to run macOS as a guest on an Apple silicon Mac with Monterey 12.5 as a host: Delete.On.Reboot is a small and effective program when it comes to deleting non-erasable files, directories, subfolders in an elegant way on Windows computer restart.

For mac download Delete.On.Reboot 3.29