Comments on: Easily Prep Your Mac for Resale

By: Shaun Dougherty

Shaun Dougherty — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:53:20 +0000

leaving work? worried about user data on your mac?? an easy way to get rid of it all: http://bit.ly/2imyMK

By: rynokins

rynokins — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:11:48 +0000

perfect!

My recipe for a fresh computer:
A wipe of the drive, clean install of the system, then starting it up so I could run “erase free space” with “write ZEROS over data” – then running all software updates – then this.

Thanks!!

By: lorinewton

lorinewton — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:32:11 +0000

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By: Nancy Zimmerman

Nancy Zimmerman — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:56:58 +0000

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By: William Muncrief

William Muncrief — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:46:02 +0000

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By: um....

um.... — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:21:26 +0000

this method is a sure fire way to give all your personal info to whoever you sell it to. Deleting your home folder does not actually erase it. It just erases the pointers to the files. There are enough free programs out there to recover “deleted” information from old hard drives that even a 13 year old kid would have no problem getting all your data.

By: Mac ReSale. | Nerdlike.com

Mac ReSale. | Nerdlike.com — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:22:39 +0000

[...] Since we are in a recession, many people are selling their priced possessions on CraigsList [and the likes] to make ends meet. Check out this easy DIY tutorial on how to prep your Mac for resale. [Via MacGuruLounge] [...]

By: Ellen

Ellen — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:31:39 +0000

If I go all the way through these instructions (to the brand new computer phase) will all of my programs still be there? I don’t have all the discs anymore, but I’d love to keep them. And I want to keep things safe.
Thanks for the walkthrough!

By: Gregory

Gregory — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:43:47 +0000

Just got a new MacBook Pro 17″, and my brother-in-law was in need of a laptop. So my 13″ MacBook I wanted to give to him, but I didn’t want to “Clear” it all the way buy reinstalling OS X. Since it has Windows installed and Microsoft office, I wanted the MacBook to still retain these things. This blog was perfect for what i was trying to do.
Thanks.

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:36:07 +0000

Uhh, the easiest and absolute best method is to wipe the drive, and reinstall the OS. Just deleting files still leaves all of your personal data at risk from whoever you may be selling it to.