What are Payloads?

[Otto Pylot]

Just noticed a Payload folder in the Applications folder. What is it?
OS 10.10.5.

[Neill Massello]

Otto Pylot <ot...@bogus.address.com> wrote:

> Just noticed a Payload folder in the Applications folder. What is it?
> OS 10.10.5.

Are you sure it isn't at the root level of your startup disk?

[Otto Pylot]

In article <1mcv65z.1rvbb7o1u7di18N%nmas...@yahoo.com>, Neill

Actually it's not in the Applications folder. My mistake. It's on the
startup disk with the other folders, Applications, System, Library,
etc. Clicking on it:
Payload->External->System->Library->CoreServices->FirmwareUpdates->
Packages->EFIJSONs and EFIPayloads, with .json and LOCKED.scap files

It seems to be misplaced for some reason.

[nospam]

In article <251020151943390807%ot...@bogus.address.com>, Otto Pylot

<ot...@bogus.address.com> wrote:

> > > Just noticed a Payload folder in the Applications folder. What is it?
> > > OS 10.10.5.
> >
> > Are you sure it isn't at the root level of your startup disk?
> >
>
> Actually it's not in the Applications folder. My mistake. It's on the
> startup disk with the other folders, Applications, System, Library,
> etc. Clicking on it:
> Payload->External->System->Library->CoreServices->FirmwareUpdates->
> Packages->EFIJSONs and EFIPayloads, with .json and LOCKED.scap files
>
> It seems to be misplaced for some reason.

it's a bug.

<https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7297524>

[JF Mezei]

On 2015-10-25 21:24, Otto Pylot wrote:
> Just noticed a Payload folder in the Applications folder. What is it?
> OS 10.10.5.

I do not have such a folder.

I spect it is a leftover from some software install which may have not
gone to full completeion and deleted that folder.

[Otto Pylot]

In article <251020152256403191%nos...@nospam.invalid>, nospam

Thank you. Fortunately my Air isn't one of the affected models.

[Lewis]

In message <251020151824388204%ot...@bogus.address.com>

Otto Pylot <ot...@bogus.address.com> wrote:
> Just noticed a Payload folder in the Applications folder. What is it?

No way of knowing. It is not part of the OS.

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[Lewis]

In message <251020151943390807%ot...@bogus.address.com>

In that case, it is a Firmware Update, as it says.

> It seems to be misplaced for some reason.

Maybe. I don't know where Firmware updates are normally placed.


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[Neill Massello]

Otto Pylot <ot...@bogus.address.com> wrote:

> It seems to be misplaced for some reason.

It was installed by the latest Security Update. It should have been
deleted by the updater, but wasn't. I also had the folder on my Mac,
which didn't need the firmware update. Consider this another exhibit in
the debate over whether Apple's software quality has declined.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <slrnn2ritk....@amelia.local>,

That's probably where they're placed, but they normally get deleted
after they're installed. The bug seems to be that they don't get deleted
if your Mac isn't one of the models that needs it.

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The mere existence of bugs doesn't equate to a downward trend in quality.
You'll have to do a lot more to prove that assertion.

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