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Wipe utility

convert09

convert09

macrumors member
Original poster
Apr 13, 2009
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Chi-town area
O.K., I'm fairly new into my mac. Today I have been searching for a utility to wipe free space on my macbook. I'm looking for something open source/freeware. When I was using Windoze I used Eraser by Heide. I can't find a thing out there. Oh, and I've done a search here in the forums and after looking through multiple pages I haven't found anything that meets my needs. Sorry. I'm pretty frustrated. And pardon my ignorance in all things Mac.
 
ziggyonice

ziggyonice

macrumors 68020
Mar 12, 2006
2,385
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Rural America
Do you know about Disk Utility? It's already on your Mac, and enables you to erase, format, partition, and many other things.

It's in your Utilities folder, which is inside your Applications folder.
 
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SDub90

macrumors 6502a
Nov 9, 2009
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Long Island
If you go to disk utility and select the partition you want to erase and go to "erase" the only button available will be "erase free space"
 
Peace

Peace

Cancelled
Apr 1, 2005
19,546
4,556
Space The Only Frontier
You can erase the whole hard drive but that removes the OS also.

You can also erase the free space using various security levels.

Keep in mind a 7-pass or 30-pass erase free space takes a LONG,LONG time.

Overnight long.

At least.

If you have a 500MB-1TB hard drive.
 
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