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When selling an iMac, what should I delete?

  • 23-12-2011 1:46pm
    #1
    JohnSmith17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 231 ✭✭


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  • #2
    Padgeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭Padgeman


    Your user account, and any apps you may have installed that you don't want the new owner to have. Honestly if you're selling it, it makes sense to just do a clean install of Mac OS from the discs that came with the machine when you got it. That way, any information that might have been on the machine will be deleted.


  • #3
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Padgeman wrote: »
    Your user account, and any apps you may have installed that you don't want the new owner to have. Honestly if you're selling it, it makes sense to just do a clean install of Mac OS from the discs that came with the machine when you got it. That way, any information that might have been on the machine will be deleted.

    Be very careful here, a simple format will not make all your data unrecoverable, far from it. It's very easy to actually recover data after a format, look into DBan to wipe the drive and then reload OSX

    Nick

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  • #4
    Padgeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭Padgeman


    In fairness, if he's selling it to Joe Bloggs, they won't be looking into data recovery to see what dirt they can get on the previous owner. OP, if that is a concern, use Disk Utility on your Install CD to securely erase your hard disk.


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