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Pseudo-wiping MBP for family member, need help please.

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Sputnek

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I'm giving my 2011 13'' MBP i7 to my niece, and I'm trying to clean out the computer, but I want to leave in programs such as MO Student so my sister wont have to buy it for her. Do you guys and gals have any suggestion on any pseudo-wiping the MBP?

Primarily want to delete my itunes media and business files.

Thank you in advance.
 
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benwiggy

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All your data should be in your user account. If you create a new account for your niece, and then delete your old account, it should be good to go.
 
r0k

r0k

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Sputnek said:
I'm giving my 2011 13'' MBP i7 to my niece, and I'm trying to clean out the computer, but I want to leave in programs such as MO Student so my sister wont have to buy it for her. Do you guys and gals have any suggestion on any pseudo-wiping the MBP?

Primarily want to delete my itunes media and business files.

Thank you in advance.
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You might consider wiping deleted space once you're done in case she loses the machine and "some bad guy" gets ahold of it and undeletes your 2007 tax return. :eek:

benwiggy said:
All your data should be in your user account. If you create a new account for your niece, and then delete your old account, it should be good to go.
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Make sure you create a new admin account before deleting the old one!
 
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Sputnek

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r0k said:
You might consider wiping deleted space once you're done in case she loses the machine and "some bad guy" gets ahold of it and undeletes your 2007 tax return. :eek:



Make sure you create a new admin account before deleting the old one!
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Thank you for the reply. I never thought about the tax scenario and that led to me think of how many docs like that I have on here. So I guess I will wipe the comp and purchase her a new copy of Microsoft Office. Thank you again.
 
r0k

r0k

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Sputnek said:
Thank you for the reply. I never thought about the tax scenario and that led to me think of how many docs like that I have on here. So I guess I will wipe the comp and purchase her a new copy of Microsoft Office. Thank you again.
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No. Wait. No need to send money to M$. That would be a bigger disaster than publishing your tax return on this forum. :eek:

You can simply follow the procedure for adding a new admin account, wiping your old account but after you've done that you can pick from a number of severity levels of disk wiping to make sure your files aren't available in deleted space on your Mac.
 
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Sputnek

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Feb 4, 2011
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Florida - Ohio
r0k said:
No. Wait. No need to send money to M$. That would be a bigger disaster than publishing your tax return on this forum. :eek:

You can simply follow the procedure for adding a new admin account, wiping your old account but after you've done that you can pick from a number of severity levels of disk wiping to make sure your files aren't available in deleted space on your Mac.
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Haha good save, I was just about to start, but thankfully I came across your message before I went ahead.
 
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