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eddjedi

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Sep 7, 2011
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I am selling my wife's old MacBook Air on eBay, and did a clean install of High Sierra (it's a 2010 model.) Before wiping it I took a screenshot of the 'About This Mac' screen but forgot to do the full system profile screens.

I have been asked a couple of times for the battery cycle count, but I don't want to setup a new user account just to open the system profile. Is there a way of finding this out without setting up an account? I want to leave the setup assistant in place for the new owner, and don't want to reinstall the OS again. Any help appreciated.
[doublepost=1550923064][/doublepost]Don't worry I figured it out, boot in to terminal by holding Command and S, then type:

ioreg -l -w0 |grep Capacity
 
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