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tl01

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I am selling a MacBook Air tomorrow...it has an SSD....how do I erase it? I read online about how it is different with SSD vs hard drive but I have to admit that it was a little confusing to me. I’m a mom...and my husband is not the techie in the family so I have to figure this out here please. I have done disk utility and erased then Macintosh HD partition. One article I read said to do it encrypted so I did...is that password on there now? I did it again not encrypted.
 

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I am selling a MacBook Air tomorrow...it has an SSD....how do I erase it? I read online about how it is different with SSD vs hard drive but I have to admit that it was a little confusing to me. I’m a mom...and my husband is not the techie in the family so I have to figure this out here please. I have done disk utility and erased then Macintosh HD partition. One article I read said to do it encrypted so I did...is that password on there now? I did it again not encrypted.
I just used the disk utility program to erase the entire hard drive on my 12” MacBook, and then I downloaded macOS back onto it. It’s at the setup screen now. Ready for its next owner.

Funny the amount of overlap in our tech lives, eh? eSIM and now this. LOL. What are we getting next?
 
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tl01

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I just used the disk utility program to erase the entire hard drive on my 12” MacBook, and then I downloaded macOS back onto it. It’s at the setup screen now. Ready for its next owner.

Funny the amount of overlap in our tech lives, eh? eSIM and now this. LOL. What are we getting next?

Lol!!! That is funny!!! Okay. That’s what I did. I just clicked erase and then downloaded MacOs...and then updated it to Mojave bc it hadn’t been used in a while. And put it in dark mode because it looks cool like that.

What other things will “we” getting...maybe for the holidays?

Thanks again!!
 
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