dumping my spare mac mini , how do I wipe out all personal information without do a re install? Not much on it, just want to dump my browser bookmarks and stuff
If you do into Disk Utility there is an erase free space option. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=diskutility/10.5/en/duh1010.html .
QuantumLo0p - Which tool recovers that data? Wouldn't the original poster want to wipe the entire drive, if that paranoid?
Personally whenever I'm about to sell a computer, I reformat the harddrive with the 7-Erase setting. Its writes 0 to every space on the hard drive . . . 7 times, NOBODY is going to have a chance of grabbing any of your old data at that point.
That is especially important if you ever did taxes, logged into you bank or anything with your personal information on that machine.
-iGrant
yup def and i do that too (7 pass is still slightly possible to get some data back however), but im not sure if the OP is after that.
i guess he will have to clarify
I'd do the 35 pass (or is it 30 . . . ) but it takes freaking FOREVER!!! Usually I can get teh 7 pass to run over night without any issues.
-iGrant
ive never had to do it. i dont really have any important data lol.. still a youngin
Stay that way!!! Life's simplier
-iGrant