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    Jan 11, 2022 3 minutes

    Cleaning Intel translations

    Q On my M1 MacBook Air, Rosetta 2 keeps a lot of translated Intel apps even when their originals have been removed. How can I clean those up and recover the space?

    by CHRISTIAN GREEN

    A When you install an app that isn’t universal but only contains Intel code, your M1 Mac detects that and passes it to be translated into ARM code so Rosetta 2 can run that app.

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