Help completely erasing everything on my mac

[houssein31]

Hello,

I have a lot of documents on my mac and theres so many ads that keeps popping up (this is not happening on my macbook air). So I was wondering how to "restore my mac". I searched online how to do it, but I didn't really find a way. I know that there is a way to do so on iOS device, to erase every single thing on the device.

An I won't back it up since all of the document I need are in iCloud (pages, keynote documents)... So what I wan is to restore the mac just like when I bought it.

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!

 

[yjchua95]

Hello,

I have a lot of documents on my mac and theres so many ads that keeps popping up (this is not happening on my macbook air). So I was wondering how to "restore my mac". I searched online how to do it, but I didn't really find a way. I know that there is a way to do so on iOS device, to erase every single thing on the device.

An I won't back it up since all of the document I need are in iCloud (pages, keynote documents)... So what I wan is to restore the mac just like when I bought it.

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!

How about just downloading AdBlock for your web browser? That'll get rid of ads.

 

[Weaselboy]

Hello,

I have a lot of documents on my mac and theres so many ads that keeps popping up (this is not happening on my macbook air). So I was wondering how to "restore my mac". I searched online how to do it, but I didn't really find a way. I know that there is a way to do so on iOS device, to erase every single thing on the device.

An I won't back it up since all of the document I need are in iCloud (pages, keynote documents)... So what I wan is to restore the mac just like when I bought it.

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!

Since you are on Mavericks, you can just command-r boot to recovery. From there start Disk Util and erase Macintosh HD to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. Then quit Disk Util and click install OS X at the top. Once the install is done create a new account for yourself then redownload your apps from the App Store and turn on iCloud to get your documents and data back.