Comments on: Easily Prep Your Mac for Resale

By: Sweetwater

Sweetwater — Thu, 19 May 2011 00:32:29 +0000

Thanks for posting this, it was exactly what I was looking for!

By: EkDor

EkDor — Wed, 04 May 2011 09:27:49 +0000

To clarify. Sure you can sell your software or software registration, unless otherwise specified by the developer you bought it from. But once you do sell it you don’t own it and therefore can’t use it on your new computer. Some developers will detect multiple uses of a serial and deactivate it. So if this happens you may effectively rip off your customer. Additionally if your registration data contains your name you may have a problem. Also be aware that you may have provided other personal details with your registration. It’s all a bit messy if you ask me. I wouldn’t recommend it.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 04 May 2011 01:57:21 +0000

Hi there,

So to confirm, any software bought by and registered to me cannot be sold with the computer?

Thanks!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:09:17 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks for this tutorial. I wanted to give my buyer that “like new” experience and this did the trick.

By: EkDor

EkDor — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:02:15 +0000

It seems to me that not erasing the HD with some secure erasure is bad advice. You don’t know who your selling the device to. It is possible to reclaim some data, you don’t know what data that would be.

Do a full wipe and make use of the secure erase feature while your at it!

Another advantage of starting fresh is, by reinstalling, you are resetting the main library which IS NOT related to the user, which means deleting/creating new user will not effect it. If you’ve used this machine a while and used various apps there will likely be debris littering that and other directories/folders.

Not to mention any software you paid-for and registered. Which, if registered to the machine and not the user, will likely still be available to the next user you sell it to, if you or they happen to install the software. Again if they are disreputable they might even offer your serial up to pirate serial registrations for others to use, such as serial-box. If that serial is registered in your name then those people will be registering pirated software in your name.

Additionally this gives the computer a fresh start clearing out any little niggly errors that might have cropped up after extensive use.

Cheers,.

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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